Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...
While amateur boxers jabbed and danced at each other in preliminary bouts, watchers saw a member of the Wales entourage whisper to Playwright Shaw, saw him shake his head. More whispering. The Shavian beard waggled in violent negation. A rumor spread: "Shaw has refused to meet the Prince!" Dinner-jacketed ringsiders were furious. Boos and whistles echoed from the cheaper seats...
...spite of the acknowledged improvement of the course it is still one which the sub-freshman will do well to take steps to avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...
...dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...
City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall...