Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troopers, in the drawing rooms of effete Simla, and through the sweating jungles promising the lonely civilian a suicidal death, over all India even to the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, the genius of young Kipling searched and brought to light the romance of the sordid. But now, they whisper, that genius has been dead for thirty years, and its newest effort, "Limits and Renewals", is only a sickly, grave-scented breath of the old Kipling...
...degree unworkable is Dean Donham's remedy for the economic chaos which has brought about the present depression. In his new book "Business looks at the Unforeseen," Mr. Donham suggests that economic planning be done by a "central thinking agency." Unfortunately, it would be only an advisory body to whisper in the ear of Big Business. Ideal as this method might seem to the magnate, history and experience surely point out that an advisory agency could never win enough support by gentle suasion to untangle the knots with which conflicting interests bind the commerce of the nation...
...prosaic folk. One, however, is not. She is Eunice Wolfhill, young wife of the expedition's leader. He has married her so he can claim an extra 300 acres of Government land. She has married him for no apparent reason. Her fluttery, unnatural behavior leads the others to whisper that she has witch blood in her. It is she who first becomes sensitive to the Indian drums which dog the trail day and night...
...stages in America alone, and "that infernal nonsense Pinafore" was running in everyone's head. No clergymen dared say "never" of a Sunday morning, for fear of a snicker from the pews; and when a minister intoned "For He Himself hath said it," some rogue would be sure to whisper "and it's greatly to his credit that He is an Englishman." "Pinafore" came like a spanking breeze to the doldrums of the Victorian stage; it was as new and exciting as Dr. Bell's contrivance that two years before had set the Philadelphia centennial by the ears...
...guests, playing backgammon, were not perturbed. Austin H. Niblack had just gone home and this, they thought, was some practical joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper called police. Two officers arrived, were lined up with the victims by the gunmen who then lost their nerve, fled. The police gave chase, shooting and shot at, and recovered an overcoat containing nearly all the stolen jewelry, valued at $150,000. Three of the robbers were caught...