Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning came a loud buzz on the doorbell of the White House Offices. Secret Service men rushed out-for not in months had that bell been rung-glared at a man who meekly said, ''I am Judge Mack of Poughkeepsie. I have an appointment to lunch with the President." So he had, for he was to suggest to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia this week, as he did in 1932, that it ought to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for President...
Farnsworth Abroad. Year and a half ago Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television...
...Rome from Berlin on cabled orders from Publisher Hearst himself hopped trouble-shooting Hudson ("Buzz") Hawley. He found rumors buzzing that Emanuel had been "shot in the back as a spy." These jittery reports proved baseless when Correspondent Emanuel defended himself wittily before a Fascist court in which he was accused of nothing more serious than "obtaining" information of a military character. This information had been innocently posted to Bureau Chief Emanuel by a minor Italian stringman acting on his own initiative in ignorance of present drastic Italian war news curbs. Admitting that he received this letter. Correspondent Emanuel chirped...
...Vagabond thus walked and mused suddenly he was aware that he had reached. Dunster House, and it did seem very imposing and things seemed to buzz exceedingly. And again the Vagabond thought how warm it must be in winter and how cold the Tower. But the students who strolled indifferently about the court did seem most cold and concerned only with their gentlemanly ego. The Vagabond wondered whether he dare go in-for he's a sensitive soul and ill-versed in indifference. But he was asked to the exhibition of modern European art-and the Vagabond does love...
Last week's meeting at the Coffee House was to try to entice the bolters back into the fold, to stiffen the backbone of the boycotters. None of those who resigned returned. There was a great buzz-buzz-buzz of angry oratory in which the museums were roundly denounced as rackets. About midnight, with the aid of words and whiskey, the Society members had worked themselves up to such a pitch that they were ready to cripple every art show in the land to win their rental crusade...