Word: utterance
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...heretical Bishop sat on the dais, folded his black-gloved hands. A fascinated crowd waited the defiant climax when he should rise to utter swift-footed words. He walked to the front of the dais. Cheers resounded. He stretched forth his hand in benediction. He put his black-gloved finger to his lips, signifying they were sealed. He beamed with childish delight, returned to his seat...
...hall. Undaunted, Mr. Baldwin-whose headquarters are the American Civil Liberties Union, Manhattan-came to town, marched with speechless strikers to the City Hall. "Go for 'em! Break 'em up!" cried a lusty policeman. "I am reading the Bill of Rights"* was all a striker could utter before a police sergeant shoved him from his perch on the top step and recited the Riot...
Interviewed on the political situation, ex-Premier Zaghlul was calm, said: "It is simply this, that constitutional government in Egypt has temporarily ended. Both dissolution of the chamber and the proposed modification by decree of the electoral law. . . are utter unconstitutional...
...rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...
...comparison of Eastern and Western institutions to determine superiority seems unproductive, both because of the utter impossibility of reaching a decision, and because any such modern judgment of Paris would be rather less than unprofitable: and a comparison based on nothing more vital than a mistaken notion of mental cosmopolitanism seems particularly empty...