Word: whispering
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...last week the royal grapevine was abuzz with a dramatic whisper. Royalty had a new champion-the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Washington came a report that Moscow had sounded out London on the subject of restoring Rumania's ex-King Carol to his throne. The Russians believed that Carol, now in Mexico with his mistress, Magda Lupescu, might be just the man to establish a Rumanian government "very friendly" to Moscow...
...front-line sergeant in World War I. Beside him, Cotton Ed seemed aged and tired. In one appearance, Cotton Ed spoke a few minutes, then played a recording of a speech he made six years ago. The audience was shocked: his voice now was a whisper...
...Private Room H," reached by a dark corridor underneath the speaker's stand. In & out, all afternoon, went Hannegan, Kelly, Flynn, Walker, Hague & Co. Harry Truman stayed there for three hours, handshaking the delegates as the bosses brought them in. Inside, someone was always on the telephone, and whispered snatches of conversation floated to the door: "I think we got California in shape . . ." "Kelly said . . ." "At the New York caucus, they . . ." "Don't worry too much about Alabama. . . ." One of the most impressive lines, used with small-town delegates, was the whisper: "I think they have the President...
...week, and repairs to a Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick of ranging from a whisper to a sudden roar. In a swift series of 500 campaign speeches, young Bob Bradford last week finished strong even in some stout Irish precincts, where to be a Yankee and a Harvard man is to be twice-damned...
Shelves Full. In some ways it seemed almost like a prewar summer. Talk of rationing and shortages dropped to a whisper: after two and a half years of war, the hardest things to get were kleenex, Camel cigarets, and shirts from the laundry...