Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glass transom was covered with cardboard. Outside the grey-enameled door stood three husky sergeants at arms. Newsmen, bored yet anxious, lounged on the chintz-covered sofas, listening for sounds from behind the guarded door. Occasionally there were voices, strident and angry; then long stretches of muffled buzz-buzz. Finally there came a burst of applause and then, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a full-throated rendition of Solidarity Forever...
Well aware that they are launching a biographical buzz bomb, which may have serious repercussions in the autograph market, Author Smith & Others make haste to deny that their book is an attack on Shelley. They simply wish to show that "romantic, Pagan Shelley," whom they refer to as "the pardlike Spirit, beautiful and swift," never degenerated into respectability; that he was "a whirlwind of devastation, upsetting the life of nearly everyone with whom he came into contact and leaving an appalling trail of acrimonious litigation, financial chaos, childbirth and death, double suicide and disaster behind...
There were preliminary rumblings that a Ruml plan for Macy's was already in the works. Those who have watched Macy's recent expansion (TIME, July 16) had a new rumor to buzz about. The rumor: Macy's is dickering to buy Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Said Ruml waggishly: "We've been denying that report for two years. But you can look awfully silly if you print a denial and then two weeks later the contrary is announced...
...narrow beam of light. By turning the beam from side to side, the blind man can feel his way. When the beam hits a lamppost, a fence or any such obstacle, its light reflects back to a lens and is focused on a photoelectric cell. A gentle buzz in an earphone warns him that the obstacle is near. The blind man can tell its direction by pointing his box. He can learn to tell how far away it is by the length of the buzz...
Anybody could understand Main Street. Novelist Lewis' style might be rasping and insistent, but it was no more complicated than a buzz saw. Main Street's narrative neatness made it as readable as a Saturday Evening Post story. And Author Lewis had a phonographic knack for recording the hodgepodge patter of U.S. provincial speech that at best was inspired, at worst vivid vaudeville. As a storm of controversy whipped up the sales, Main Street ran through eleven printings in less than four months...