Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoot him, will you?", and of the Jessups' lazy, loud mouthed hired man who embraces Corpoism early because he wants 1) to show his kindly employers that he is as good a man as they; 2) a gaudy uniform; 3) the glittering income promised by President Berzelius ("Buzz") Windrip to every man & woman in the U. S. In the novel, Jessup's daughter avenges her husband's murder by crashing her sport plane into Effingham Swan's transport plane. When the play's last curtain falls she is in a Corpo office on the Canadian...
Except for Parson Prang, the political characterizations are weak. The none too obvious but nevertheless pertinent implications about the present administration have, of course, been totally disregarded, much to the detriment of the story. And then, too, the dramatic presentation makes overmuch of a buffoon of "Buzz" Windrip...
...Early photographs of the incomplete Kroll mural created a mild buzz in Washington when it was discovered that the black-gowned jurist lending a helping hand to oppressed workmen was an obvious portrait of Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime Republican Attorney General, good friend of Leon Kroll and one of the Court's steady liberals...
...Bendix finish was not the first thrill for the crowd. It had already seen a parachute jumper bashed to death in front of the stands, watched the 34 private planes in the annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
...historic Station KDKA. Radio makers began to multiply like summer flies. Most of them were soon swatted by the proverbial vicissitudes of their industry. Relatively few of the early breed even survived for the cream-jugs of the late 1920's. Still fewer continued to buzz right through Depression...