Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden...
...side of the Boat Club. Many a wounded scull has been repaired there, but the story is told of one eight, whose remains can still be seen in the Boat Club, which ran up the ramp into the shop in a fog and got sawed in half on the buzz...
...since the first Manhattan performances of Parsifal (in 1903) had there been such a buzz of American anticipation over a piece of music...
There is no known way to make war cozy, but publishers and popular novelists have done their best to enable summering readers to go to war in a hammock. These five novels are some of their doings. One is a worthy, serious book. Some are a mere buzz. All are easy hot-weather reading...
...money Russ deserves as much credit as Colin Kelly or Buzz Wagner. "Going out in a blaze of glory" has a new meaning...