Word: hush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allan, home from Harvard Business School, officiated in the distribution of presents and gimcracks from a huge star-topped tree. Next morning the Hoovers, old and young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise. While Peggy Anne and Herbert III watched in pop-eyed amazement, a round, red-cheeked, flesh-&-blood Santa Claus with a heavy toy pack stepped out on the hearth, approached them...
...pugilist wanders around wanting to "take a sock" at someone. "Just one sock!" he pleads. And then there is an unfortunate suicide. Miss Moran is distressed at what her father's constituency may think. Mr. Kerr is distressed at what his family will think. Miss Dale sees her hush money slipping away from...
...side issue of the Mixed Claims Commission's labors last week concerned the late, great Lord Kitchener. Lawyer Bonynge, apropos nothing in particular, fished out his portfolio of German confessions one made by a certain Fred Hermann. This alleged "secret service agent" declared that he worked with other German hush-hush men in London early in the War, positively asserted that they learned of Earl Kitchener's projected visit to Russia on a British cruiser, radioed to Berlin information which enabled Germans to lay the mine which sunk...
...Janeiro officials did their best to hush this up too. A Federal censorship was established. Liberal-owned radio stations were closed. Chief of Police Oliveira Sobrinho called editors of opposition papers into his office, pointed out how unfortunate it would be if they should publish "false and misleading" accounts of the assassination or the unfortunate little affair of the ''independent state" in Parahyba...
...story would not hush. In Parahyba city enraged Liberals burned Republican homes, wrecked Republican stores. Parahyba's police were all inland, fighting Independent José Pereira; 1,000 Federal troops finally were called out to do police duty. In Parahyba gaol 187 convicts banged on the jail doors, begged that they might be released to slit the throats of the murderers of State President Pessoa...