Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas Borah had been something of a racy collegian, a lad of midnight escapades, and whisper it softly in Lyons, of the "flowing bowl...
...over the storm of moralistic indignation which the film has aroused. Produced several years ago and presented frequently in Europe, it has yet to enjoy a regular run in America and it is assumed that the inhibiting factor has been fear of censorship. So intriguing was the delectable advance whisper that the opening night attracted a large and urgent through, forcing the management to give an extra performance to satisfy the demands of an art-seeking populace...
...increased. Jove's lightning, once more mysterious than the sun-spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged. Changeless also is the need that use of these tools should be taught in the elementary schools with utmost simplicity and absolute certainty. Not different is the need-though greatly more difficult the achievement-that...
...long before the nurse on duty entered. She walked to the bed, lifted the box in her arms, and tiptoed to the door again, closing it behind her. There were whispered conjectures among those who had awakened as to the significance of the strange event. The door, however, was soon opened again. The visitor had returned, again the possessor of his mysterious box. Strange! No one had heard the nurse scream. He paused but he bedside of a man near the door, and inquired in an audible whisper: "Is this the third floor?" Receiving an affirmative, he demanded assurance...
Since 1931, however, the hardest anti-Roosevelt whisper to down has been the one about his health. One day last April an Associated Press photographer snapped the President at a baseball game yelling and popping peanuts into his mouth. Worse was a photograph he took in which a trick of light had made the President look ghastly pale. Its publication brought the White House a storm of anxious letters inquiring about the President's health. Distraught, Secretary Early declared a ban on all candid cameras around the White House...