Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before the starboard oars splintered against the bridge, the cox was heard to mutter...
Germany bitterly resists the invasion of her coal fields, but not, apparently, of her studios. The younger painters still follow the lead of Paris modernists, in spite of propaganda and the mutter of the Ruhr. According to foreign critics, German art today is French. But art of any sort exists with difficulty in Berlin. Statistics recently published show that nine-tenths of the painters and sculptors face starvation. The situation has reached a crisis-which the government ignores. The only help, thus far, has come from America. Munich and Vienna duplicate Berlin. Hundreds of German and Austrian artists have already...
...Junior is only a Junior when he has ceased to yawn. The College office generally has aided him materially toward that end. He is sometimes heard to mutter "Hum" in a doubtful sort of way as if all within were not settled. A troubled brow and an occasional glance in the direction of a book-covered desk suggest a coming storm...
...there are gods many, so are there promises many. Beware, O ye Uncs., Occs., Specs, and Ad Libs., how ye seek after "wizards that peep and that mutter." Runs the proverb, "Facile est descensu--" and the makers of the Tower of Babel could not reverse it. Brilliant as the new light may be, make sure that it is not a will o the wisp whose lustre increases with the approach of death...
Were American trade with Canada the subject of a discussion, the casual passer-by would probably smile knowingly to himself and mutter the one word, "bottlegging". However vast this traffic may be (and it looms up largest in the minds of those who know the least about it, no doubt) it is small compared to the rest of the exports and imports between the two countries. The fact is that Canada, close to us, geographically, is becoming more and more so in here various interests. The bond that holds Canada to England is probably not so strong, economically speaking...