Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, by debate, by letter, by whisper, by everything except precise calculation, the official and unofficial agencies of U. S. Government were attempting to fix exactly what should be spent to enforce its most famed law in fiscal 1930. The question was completely devoid of definitions but was pungently involved with politics, sentiment, vanity, religion, and a dozen characters, of which the most distinguished were the President of U. S. and the President-Elect...
...over the roads. The wind lifted scarves of snow, twisting them quickly about invisible dancers in the white woods. Steep, shining lawns slanted under the trees, marked by the light feet of birds, brushed by the tails of foxes, punctuated strangely by the furry paws of rabbits. The cold whisper of winter, the soft voice of disaster through beauty, sounded in the forest...
Similar was the famed function of those ancient Roman slaves assigned to crouch in the chariot of each Conquering Proconsul as he enjoyed his Triumph. "Remember," the slave would whisper, "Remember thou art mortal!" Thus were swelled heads and rash, prideful deeds averted by an art now all but lost...
...baby, under the care of men like E. S. Martin '77, and Owen Wister '82, Lampy was the best-behaved little creature you ever saw. He grew up safely into manhood under Gluyas Williams '11 and Robert Benchley '12. There wasn't a whisper against his reputation until he was about forty, and then...
...getting steadily shorter and the streets of Cambridge assuming already their mid-winter liquidity, the Vagabond was not surprised to find on inspection of a calendar last night that only another week intervenes before attractions less elevating than lectures will be alienating the interests of his followers and even--whisper it softly--of the Vagabond himself. Such a demonstration of the appalling brevity of life has had him hurrying back and forth along the way-stations of his academic route in an attempt to make use of every available opportunity before the Reading Period brings its starvation rations. Today...