Word: whispering
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Beware of the swarthy gentleman with the pursued look and the bundle under his arm. Once safely inside your room he will open that parcel and bring forth anything from cigars to winter suitings. Taking you into the closet he will whisper in your car that he has just come from Cuba or Canada and has managed to get by the custom officials. He wants to go to Chicago and must raise the money immediately. Much as it displeases him he realizes that he must sell his treasures. Since they didn't cost him much in their native land...
...social spirit is excellent in many ways. But like all good things, it has its times and its occasions. The study hours in the Library are never the time nor the occasion. The Union was founded as a club for all men, where they can talk or argue or whisper. The street corner are free. There is the whole broad outdoors. The silence of the Library should be sacred...
...mere consistency is a desideratum, the chief virtue of the present number of the "Advocate" is that it maintains a certain harmony of inferiority. Much of the writing is mediocre or positively bad. To the latter class belongs the prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble...
...several years the student lives within the associations of the college; the very buildings are living voices of men long dead, the trees whisper of ancient memories, the atmosphere is full of history. And then, as in yonder Theatre he takes his degree, his eye catches the Latin legend above him and in reading those lines the last note of his college life is struck...
...game of football is not free from startlingly objectionable features. The moment that game is clouded by any whisper of bitter personal animosity or intentional violence, or unfairness, it degrades the game, those who play it and the crowds of spectators who give it their approval...