Word: whispering
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...official statement of which plays are naughty and whether they are really naughty. In spite of this, the city is filled with a mighty hustle and hurly-burly of reformers, and a general movement of those who might be responsible to get out from under. With the first delicious whisper of sin, there came the sound of drums and whirring grindstones and lo, some seven self-constituted investigating agencies appeared in full panoply of war, headed by that battle-scarred veteran, John R. Sumner, the superintendent of the Society for the Suppression of Vice...
...Coolidge may stand forth from his present seclusion in bright and shining raiment. But the prospects for this can scarcely be called good. The so-called "radical" Republicans are expecting and expected to tie the Senate into knots; and as for the President, there are some malicious spirits who whisper that his greatest claim to wisdom lies in his decision to remain silent as long as possible. Certainly his suggestions for enforcing Prohibition were not striking. The Republican-party has several things to live down--a stupendous and indefensible protective tariff, the obstruction of the joining of this country...
Lord Curzon called across the sea in a stage whisper to America: "Are you still willing to help us find a solution of the reparations mess? Yes? But you wouldn't be, if France won't join us, would...
...fight a duel. He returns?seven years later?as the notorious "Cunnel" Blake, whose voice makes the forests to tremble. Even the notorious General Orlando Jackson quakes at the roar thereof. But the faithful heroine is not deceived. Beneath the " Cunnel's" roar she still hears the softly sentimental whisper of the poet-lover...
...horse looks like close to. It was interesting to see the many causes of a steadily decreasing number in the train. Some through fear of homesickness turned back, others died from sickness or privation, many were killed by the Indians and a great number bolted for California at the whisper of the word--Gold. Ploughs were thrown down by the wayside and you see the creeping wagons divide into two streams, with the very few going northwest. And the arrival at the long sought-for goal is, wonder of wonders, portrayed in a very simple and unaffected manner. The first...