Word: whispering
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...still fringed the ridges. Millard Aurand and Harrison McAllip were afoot early, out to pick berries. Toward them, in great trouble on the road came a man, crawling with a broken leg. When they reached him he could just whisper...
...with the tide, slapped her in the face. No hope of making Folkstone now. For two hours the current would run against her; she could not expect to make progress. It would take all her strength to keep from being carried back to France. Trainer Burgess began to whisper to "Pop" Ederle. Suddenly the butcher stepped to the side of the tug. "Trudie," he roared, "remember you don't get that roadster unless you git over." The watery reply was indistinguishable to the people on the tug. Mr. Ederle beamingly assured them that his little girl said...
...temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still one. of the most potent in Germany. Frenchmen have not so completely disestablished Catholicism as not to heed an occasional whisper from the Vatican. Who is Calles, what is Mexico that the immemorially potent Papacy should fear it may not triumph in the end? Centuries of Strife. During the four centuries of Catholic penetration into Mexico the Roman Catholic Church, abetted by and abetting Spain, extinguished virtually all other religious cults...
Next day, paired with little Mlle. Didi Vlasto, she played three listless sets against Mary K. Browne and Elizabeth Ryan, won the first, lost the next two and the match. She showed small interest in the game or its result. Fearless Whigs began to whisper that she might not be faking-she might really have something the matter. In the singles, Molla Mallory beat Joan Fry of England, Mlle. H. Conto-slavos of France beat Mrs. Marion Jessup, and Mlle. Lenglen, after displaying a physician's certificate that forbade her to take part in any vigorous match, beat...
...Herbert Samuel. The logical person to whisper about conciliatorily among the stern-faced, set-lipped combatants was, of course, the man who chairmaned the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19), the impartial investigator who presumably knew more than any other man in England about the friction in the coal industry which ultimately generated first the "coal strike" and the "general strike." Fortunately this man, Sir Herbert Samuel, is of such outstanding ability as to have become one of the four Jews who have held British Cabinet posts. Adroit but upright, he won fame as a conciliator while High Commissioner...