Word: whisperingly
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...telling impact in Canada as the newly created, all-powerful Board of Broadcast Governors opened hearings last week on a strict set of ground rules to keep television in Canada as Canadian-and hopefully as pure-as driven snow. The Ottawa hearing had barely begun when an electrifying whisper raced through the room: "Van Doren has confessed." Any lingering hope for easy rules went up in smoke...
...keep him busy five nights a week. Platée, he confessed last week over a post-performance glass of warm milk, is his favorite role, and the Varieties one of his favorite theaters. Unlike Fanny Kemble, he was delighted to be rubbing elbows with his audience. "One can whisper," said he, "just in their ears...
...their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill. He is hard-muscled, handsome, handy with a snub-nosed, 38, and his hide is as tough as the bluing on a pistol barrel. Decent, disillusioned...
...Thomas moves in to kiss her husband and whisper...
...Honduran children are born out of wedlock. Three illegitimate children per father is "the rule," but ten is "not unusual." Dismayed when one group of children met with blank faces his question, "How many Gods are there?", he was downright horrified when the local schoolteacher coached in a stage whisper: "Five...