Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defiley silence answered him. The Sage began to mutter to himself. "So Holy Cross is going to win, is it?," he said with a Glynnt in his eye. Why, that DaGrossast He I ever heard. It's perfectly Cleo to me what will happen. It'll be a fight to the Flynnish, but the score will be: Harvard 14 Holy Cross...
...stage as they piped marches and piobaireachds, a kind of wailing dirge which sounds like the cries of caged animals. Said Archibald Campbell: "We purists are passionately devoted to the piobaireachd." When the last piper had piped, one of the judges complained of a cramp and was heard to mutter: "Och, it's a terrible long business, terrible long." Another admitted to "a little pressure around the temples." The judges sadly agreed that the war years had not improved the quality of the pipers...
...scene-stealing, but not once does she come off second best. The attitude of her more experienced fellow workers has probably been best expressed by Veteran Barrymore. After a short rehearsal one day with Actress O'Brien. 'Barrymore, a notorious scene grabber himself, was heard to mutter : "Two hundred years ago, they'd have burnt her as a witch...
Actually, Britons, temperamentally incapable of becoming totalitarian robots, were not taking and would not take much downtreading from socialists or anybody else. Some might mutter that Morrison wanted to be a policeman "like his father." But Morrison knows his Britain; he put up a sign in London classrooms expressing a most anti-authoritarian sentiment: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
...councilor for 13 years, of "intelligence with the enemy" during the occupation. Rightists answered that such an accusation should be heard in a court of law, not in the legislature. The Reds promptly let go with shrill invective. Pierre Hervé, Communist intellectual, flung "Vichyite!" at Rightist André Mutter. The wizened but agile editor leaped up and started across the floor with fists doubled. One-armed André Le Trocquer, Socialist ex-Minister of the Interior, and two stiff-shirted, bechained ushers restrained Mutter. Meanwhile, the bedlam grew. The 150 members of Bidault's M.R.P. rose...