Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historians will be grateful for his picture of Lenin addressing a meeting: "The buzz of conversation dies as he shuffles onto the stage before you. For a period you join in the frantic applause. Then you watch him, this little man in his plain suit, standing there modestly, almost humbly. He speaks in German, not very well, pausing occasionally or even asking a word from those beside him. At first, though the silence is complete, you can hardly hear him. Then his voice strengthens and you listen with feverish eagerness for his message...
...pudgy New Jersey composer and radio conductor, led the New York Orchestra through his Station WGZBX, a satire more workmanlike than inspired which won him a $5,000 prize from National Broadcasting Co. (TIME, May 16, 1932). Horns and drums sputtered out static. Strings flurried hectically to suggest the buzz of talk. A subtitle ''Slumber Hour" was the excuse for a slow movement soggy with sentiment...
...award. And so it is at right end where big Pete Kopcsak stands head and shoulders (literally and figuratively) above the other candidates. You have got to ask us something harder than to pick the best left tackle that has trod the Stadium sod this fall because Buzz Harvey wins without much competition. Hutchison of the Army and Kilcullen of Yale get honorable mention in this class and it looks like Hutchison for the second team...
...Vive Herriot!" cried scores of deputies when the loose-skinned leader appeared in the Chamber last week for the first time since his illness. When President Lebrun asked him to form a Cabinet he refused amid a buzz of Paris rumor that "Herriot will accept about...
...game had hardly started when "Beany" Johnson, Army quarterback, caught a punt on his 18-yd. line and, with perfect interference, dashed along an 82-yd. highway to Navy's goal. The try for point failed. Before the period was over, Navy Halfbacks "Red" Baumberger and "Buzz" Berries started at midfield, had the ball over the line in three swift plays. Then, in his single play of the game, Dick Bull ran in and kicked the extra point...