Word: buzzes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover had started a buzz of farm relief talk at White Pine Camp. Later, Charles S. Barrett, head of the National Farmers' Union, came up for the weekend. Finally the President announced a plan to put into effect, privately and unofficially, the farm relief program which he indorsed at the last session of Congress...
...bovine physical endurance to turn loose upon anything- from a luke warm bean factory to an all-night bridge game- and the current he generates is seldom grounded. Small wonder that lately he has been able to let Lord & Thomas carry on largely under its own momentum, with a buzz from him; small wonder that, still well short of 50, he can sit back as chairman of the board in the big new merger and let Thomas F. Logan be the active president...
Since 1923, when he buzzed angrily out of New England, Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, bumblebee of U. S. pedagogy, has circled uncertainly about over the educational field, shooting off for a space to Europe, returning to circle some more, with a louder buzz about an "independent college" to be founded for three millions with the aid of friends (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq; Sept. 15, 1924). At one point, the students of Knox College informally extended a bouquet to the buzzing one, in the shape of their presidential chair (TIME, Dec. 29), but the circling continued, not only because...
...Poor John Coolidge. The woods and the fields beckon, the girls buzz around, the water is right for swimming. But these things mean nothing to him. He flunked French, and this is his vacation...
...dear, you shouldn't tell your d-r-e-a-m-s like that in public. Don't you know what that m-e-a-n-s ? Buzz-buzz-buzz-buzz...