Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Turkey, of Greek and Armenian parents, Albert Isaac Bezzerides reached the U. S. when he was nine months old, grew up on his father's farm near Fresno, was a champion quarter-miler in high school. Unable to pronounce his name ("Buzz-air-uh-dees"), his schoolmates called him Buzzard's Knees. He won a scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner...
...revised Jayvee shell now consists of: Bow, Harry Locke; 2, Buzz Hovey; 3, Dick Ninde; 4, John Senior; 5, Jack Radway; 6, Bill Huenekens; 7, Bill Dearborn; Stroke, Bill Rowe; Coxwain, Shortlidge...
...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...
...judicial calm of the Supreme Court, all this produced this week what in less august surroundings would have been a buzz of excitement. The opinion was the first of the Court's 1937-38 term. It also was the first one written by the Court's newest member and an exception to the procedure whereby new Justices serve an initial period before being called upon to speak for their colleagues. When Justice Black had finished, the Court proceeded to the rest of the day's business. By a 5-to-4 majority-Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black...
...King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston. While reading a lecture on ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald was only serving up the sort of dish scores of swank Britons pass around their teatables. "Indeed it is a fact," sniffed the Garter King of Arms, with stinging implication, "that less...