Word: hush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hush!" he replies. "Such questions are foreign lies and cruelty propaganda against the Leader...
Amid a religious hush, the German youths swore, "We make ourselves answerable to Germany!" At Hamburg an added touch was to bestow on dedicated youths the quality of "young Siegfrieds...
...Hoover, Mr. Smith and New York Life's President Buckner lined up behind President Buckner's desk for three-cornered handshaking photographs. There was a moment's hush, broken when Mr. Hoover leaned over to President Buckner, volunteered in a sepulchral whisper: "I have shrunken an inch...
...April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries of cowardice, NIRB Chairman Donald Richberg last week stuck his hand into the grab bag of NRA litigation and pulled out another case which he said the Government would quickly carry to the Supreme Court for the test the country seemed to demand. The case...
...refused to play another card until Hal Sims had removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband had encountered. A slight hush fell on the combatants, and Ely ordered the steward to draw a chalk line on the floor under the middle of the table "to avoid further trouble." Then Sims enraged Culbertson in the one hundred and thirteenth rubber by protesting that eighteen minutes was a little too long a time...