Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
Married. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 32, flyer, son of the one-time publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, grandson of the late John Wanamaker, onetime husband of Mrs. William Kissam (Rosamund Lancaster) Vanderbilt; and Mrs. Evelyn Hall Pierce, 27, divorced last week from H. Denny Pierce, Manhattan broker; in Chicago...
...lost job after job, wages tumbled; first one child, then the other died of spinal meningitis. They would have been evicted from their house if Pearl had not paid a banker in a way Jimmie could not forgive. One day he did not come home from the mill. A buzz-saw had killed...
...buzz of voices ceased in the hotel room; the door opened; committeemen came out. "Did you ...?'' newsgatherers asked. "Was the Morrow plank . . . ? Did Mr. Morrow...
...before the first performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play (TIME, May 12) the place was a busy buzz of villagers making money from the 5,000 visitors, of visitors collecting souvenirs. Sunday dawned rainy, giving the natives new trade at the doors of the open-air theatre-hot-water bottles, blankets, umbrellas. All day through the long performance, wind and rain beat upon huddled spectators and struggling players. When the sun did burst out it made fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night...