Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classes of inhabitants, neither of which is at all inclined to be appreciative of his efforts to provide them with such stray bits of enlightment as may still be found after the beginning of the Reading Period. On the one side there is a harried group who mutter something about "Divisionals" and hurry back to their books. At the other extreme are those whose academic engagements have been reduced to a minimum and who do not even look up from their road-maps and time-tables at the Vagabond's approach. Persona non grata as he may be, the Vagabond...
Blue butter, a'stutter, a'flutter, no mutter, no matter, no clatter, that picture, that stricture gives rise, not wisely but unwisely, to the crack, to the smack, fee-fi-io-flack, It's a nose, it's a Nose, it's a NOSE...
Some stayed to mutter about a Booth promise broken. From the Booth camp had come word the previous day that no legal action would be taken. Some went away with the feeling of having been tricked into impotency. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went into the adjoining room, lay down, and, in the torture of a sudden attack of acute indigestion, died...
Though his student audience began to mutter at such blanket flaying of all Chinese, forthright, Marshal Feng pressed straight on with his speech, smashing home each point with a sounding fist blow upon the rostrum...
Good President Hainisch, snowy of beard, kindly of eye, fancier of prize cows (TIME, April 2) has little to do except sign bills and graciously conduct state functions. In bygone years Frau und Mutter Hainisch, spouse of a potent industrialist, vigorously directed her son's education at Leipzig and his subsequent career in the courtly civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology...