Word: murmurings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...brief (1935 to 1937) movie career, in which she was not a great success, she sang arias 50 times running without a murmur of complaint. Lily Pons hates champagne, drinks little wine, likes Coca-Cola, touches hard liquor and cigarets not at all. She still feels faintly seasick all day before a concert or opera performance...
...painter's long preoccupation with circus clowns, tortured Christs, brutal judges, violent nudes, all painted in slashes of black, and brilliant, jewel-like reds, blues, greens which recalled Rouault's early apprenticeship to a stained-glass worker. Boston's plushiest Brahmins viewed the paintings with no murmur of disapprobation, even for a wrenched, very nude Red-Haired Woman, which was one of the high points of the show. Boston's Sanity in Art Society kept mum. Thus had James Sachs Plaut put critics to rout...
...piece of twine strung from a telephone pole to a soapbox to a fireplug to another telephone pole. Men in overalls and blue denim shirts lined the street. Fans waved under tattered parasols. The loudspeaker brayed a prayer. Sweat-stained hats came off; the crowd's murmur hushed. Children scuffed their feet in the dusty heat...
...most docile class I have seen" was the way Stanley K. Leonard, head proctor, described the Class of '44. "They obeyed our instructions without a murmur...
Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he could be had (see p. 9), wondered what would happen next. Suddenly the loudspeakers clustered above the delegates came alive. A voice thundered...