Word: buzzes
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...soon would be Secretary; how he and measeling Secretary Harry Hines Woodring were allowed to frustrate each other and the War Department for three racking years-even for gossipy Washington, this was a story too old, too petty in detail to bear extended repetition last week. What Washington did buzz about was the cynical climax of that story...
...millions of U. S. radios, one night last week, fight fans fidgeted. Scheduled for 9:45 was the Manhattan set-to between Welterweight Champion Henry Armstrong, Negro buzz saw, and Light weight Champion Lew Jenkins, self-styled "kind of crazy-punching guy." A nontitle fight, it had nevertheless been ballyhooed as the most exciting little-men's match since the days of Lew Tendler and Benny Leonard...
...trundled it on the field and a crowd gawked at its three-bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny propellers in an outrigger tail, used for stabilizer, rudder and elevators, whistled into shimmering discs...
Once a year Catholic editors gather to discuss their problems. Last week, meeting at Detroit's Hotel Statler for the 30th annual convention of the Catholic Press Association, 150 leading Catholic editors had something to buzz about...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir Kingsley Wood, who was an able administrator until, as Air Secretary, he got caught in the buzz saw of plane production...