Word: whispering
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Maurice Chevalier, camel-lipped love songster (". . . every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.") sang & danced for French war prisoners in Germany...
...this had taken place after a Fourth of July weekend when, as for 165 years past, fireworks softly zooped and swished, ending with a bang or a whisper. But the approach of war gave the Fourth of July 1941 a different feel and taste. The President had concluded his brief Independence Day radio speech by telling the nation...
...same forces that spewed up the Rocky Mountains, millions of years ago, turned edgewise a huge ledge of red sandstone, 15 miles from Denver. At right angles to the rock, on the rising hillside, up-jut two crags, Creation Rock and Ship Rock. In this enclosure a whisper sounds clearly, and anything from one fiddle to a full band sends lush tones rolling upward...
...nine months under multifold disguises that fooled practically no one, the men who want war for this country are launching their open campaign for belligerency. The war sentiment, once a rank heresy but always a seething undercurrent in the Aid to Britain argument, changed in one fortnight from a whisper to a strident shout. The voices which have moved so slowly from "short of war" to "war if necessary" have now undergone the final inevitable metamorphosis into "now is the time" with lightning speed...
Conquered France today is a gigantic sounding board for the shout of rumor, the whisper of fact. Last week it reverberated to an intensified campaign for collaboration with Germany. To Paris to talk with the Germans went Marshal Petain's "heir," Admiral Jean François Darlan, who then made a quick and mysterious trip to Beauvais (near which last year he met with Adolf Hitler) before going home to report to his aged chief...