Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the horny-palmed gentlemen of the Claque were worried, for the whisper was that they would no longer be wanted after Herbert Witherspoon takes command at the Metropolitan (TIME, March 18). The Metropolitan management had nothing to say, for it has never officially acknowledged its professional clappers. Their Leader, one Harold Lodovichetti, was melancholy. Having inherited his job from his father. Claqueur Lodovichetti has trained his men not only to promote enthusiasm at the right time but also to curb it. An inexperienced operagoer gets a resounding hiss if he applauds at a wrong moment. If the Claque...
...covered with spring flowers. Facing him in the pews were nearly 2,000 men & women, great and small. Owen D. Young was there and so were Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, Myron C. Taylor. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lucrezia Bori, many & many another. As the organ's whisper floated away, the rabbi said...
...from the White House by a politics-playing secretariat, talked privately of resigning. The President was kept busy inviting disgruntled workers to dinner, turning his charm on them afterward, winning them back to loyalty. Because the President had not brought forth any more Recovery plans for months, the Washington whisper was that he had lost his nerve or had run out of ideas...
...Secretary Ickes because he would not listen to their pleas for political patronage or for "pork" from the $3,300,000,000 Public Works fund he administers. To save time he would receive Congressional callers at his office in batches, require them to come up to his desk and whisper their requests. Senator Sheppard of Texas once had to wait eight days to get a private appointment. So intense was the feeling against Secretary Ickes at the Capitol last week that House Democrats refused to vote an additional $4,000,000,000 for public works and emergency relief until they...
...Realmleader's car arrived Adolf Hitler, who usually stands up in the back to be cheered, sat morosely in front with his chauffeur-a new one. Magically the whisper flew, "Two Storm Troopers fired yesterday on the Realmleader, killing his chauffeur." Amid heartbreaking tension the vast State Opera filled to bursting. All correspondents were shut out. Everyone inside was sworn to utter secrecy. An hour and a half later the Opera disgorged. That night it filled again with the same secrecy-sworn galaxy of leaders. They heard Tannhauser sung. To perform by special command of Der Reichsjilhrer, beauteous Prima...