Word: murmuring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gambling. George Michael Cohan is an actor who, in the character of a hoary and vindictive gambler, by making improper proposals to a mercenary trollop, can cause middle-aged ladies to murmur happily with approval, although one would expect them to clap tippets to their ears...
...Limerick, where the River Shannon flows under O'Brien's Bridge. President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State last week opened a sluice. The Bishop of Killaloe was there to bless the sluice, to murmur a Latin benediction. Soon muddy Shannon water was gurgling slowly into Ireland's biggest ditch, a huge canal-reservoir six miles long, deep enough to engulf a four-story home...
...murmur swelled: "They are coming!" Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies. The blue-clad Palatine Guards wore helmets topped with lazy plumes. Followed many monks and the first of a host of 5,000 seminarians from all over the world. Four abreast, chanting, bearing lighted tapers, they followed the line of march beneath Bernini's massive colonnade which encloses St. Peter's Square. This took them in serpentine procession around a huge circle, back to the basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church...
...were even heard from the skies. Yet the cry of the scoffer persisted, and though but an undertone it would not be suppressed. The bandage slipped, said some; others of more astuteness detected clear proof of Machiavellian schemes involving the use of drugged coffee. But at last the faintest murmur of discord is doomed to disappear, and not from any outward violence but through inward conviction. For, as is announced in another part of to-day's CRIMSON, the not unheralded blind-fold test on behalf of Old Gold cigarettes is to be held today in the CRIMSON building...
...ancestors bequeathed to us these great rivers, these boundless hills. Shall we murmur at them for giving us too great an inheritance? No, let us blame ourselves, their unworthy children, that we do not rise up, we do not exert ourselves, we are not willing to endure hardship...