Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Callers on Pilot Francis Monroe Hawks in the Manhattan offices of Texas Co. last week were announced in a curious manner. The reception clerk would turn to a telegraph key, buzz the name and business of the caller in wireless code. From his inner office Commander Hawks would buzz a reply. Reason: preparatory to a 25,000-mi. flight over the Pan American Airways network he is brushing up on his radio...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent his last week as a private citizen in a buzz of conferences and confusion, packing and play, travel and talk. There was little real work to be done before he took over the Presidency. His Cabinet was off his mind (see p. 12). Appointments to the sub-Cabinet and the diplomatic corps could wait until he got into the White House. He had written his Inaugural address. Most new Presidents orate an hour or more; he planned to speak for eight minutes, broadly outlining the "New Deal" and leaving its specifications to the message he would...
...just sent him to Denmark & Sweden (TIME, Oct. 3) and last week in Stockholm he was being affable to Princess Ingrid, daughter of Crown Prince Gustaf and 100% Protestant. Why? Abruptly George V's youngest son. Prince George left London last week and streaked for Stockholm. Rumors began to buzz that aggravating Edward was playing the role of willing matchmaker between Princess Ingrid, 22, and Prince George...
...Other major league players who have made four home runs in a game: Bobby Lowe of Boston in 1894, Ed Delehanty of Philadelphia in 1896. A minor leaguer, Leftfielder Buzz Arlett of the Baltimore Orioles, hit four home runs last week in a game against the Reading Keys which the Orioles...
...Buzz a man-put in sweat; give a rushing line; induce a freshman to join a fraternity. (Pennsylvania...