Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third day Senator Long's voice was a hoarse whisper. Much of his bluster had gone. From old yellow copies of the Congressional Record he read musty and long-disproved attacks on the personal integrity of Eugene Meyer, whom he called the "Kingfish of the Federal Reserve." Croaked Senator Long: "What he won't do ain't in the books! Yet we hunt boys with a pint of whiskey on the hip. What's the use of keeping Capone in Atlanta? What's the use of hunting Insull in Greece?" At 5 p. m., worn...
Laboring far in the wake of more prominent political satires and trailing leagues behind its pennant-winning cousins comes the current offering at the University, "The Phantom President," and it comes not as a stirring triumph in moving picture production but rather as the last-feeble whisper of a once glorious theatrical type. But it has George M. Cohan. The presence of this dean of Broadway's white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little...
Hlush! hush!?whisper who dares?...
...whisper while George V is saying his prayers, or while Stanley Baldwin is saying his, would be equally unthinkable. These three men?the vaguely born Prime Minister, the ermined & empurpled King-Emperor and the arch-bourgeois Leader of Britain's Conservative (majority) Party ?form today an impeccable Imperial Triumvirate. Last week they managed to wash their hands of a political crisis nasty enough to have wrecked almost any other government...
...religious and remote. Their eyes were upon the parched earth to which they must bring rain. Ceremony- Throughout the dry Arizona summer Hopi medicine men keep one eye on the ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date for the rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva...