Word: whispering
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Merely say in a whisper...
...days Strongman General Mohammed Naguib would mark six months in power; Cairenes looked forward to three days of carnival and rejoicing. But in quiet corners at cocktail parties and intimate dinners of "informed circles," the whisper went: "Stick around, this thing isn't over yet. There are more fireworks to come...
...with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers will have to look at is Actor Laughton himself, a fat man in a rumpled suit, leaning on a stool placed on a table. But they will hear his sonorous voice descend to a whisper and rise to a shout as he reads stories from the Bible and Guy de Maupassant, from James Thurber and Dickens and Thomas Wolfe...
Cheesecake. Among the worst offenders, said the committee, are nudist magazines supposedly "published in the interest of sunshine and health," and straight cheesecake magazines. Sample cheesecake titles: Candid Whirl, Glamorous Models, Wink, Whisper, Keyhole, Titter, Foo, Nifty, Pepper, Zip, Wham, Paris Life...
...legendary Christmas saint himself. When Adrien made his appearance last year in the toy department of one of the biggest department stores on the Left Bank, children left the firm grip of parental hands with a shout of joy to clamber into his lap, pull his beard and whisper their hopes into his ear. As far as the merchants of the Left Bank were concerned, the definitive Père Noë had come to Paris to stay. Adrien's own old heart was bursting with happiness and good news to take to his wife Pauline in the hospital...