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...system of slavery with public ownership substituted for private ownership, and would place Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington. We don't mix nohow. We weren't born under the same régime and don't drink out of the same bottle. We don't want them interfering with our affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Georgia Rejects | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...remarking. That glance was charged with vibrations not altogether harmonious. Koussevfeky threw down his baton and marched out in smothered rage. The audience tittered gleefully. Chaliapin stood his ground. A new conductor, De Posse, formerly of the Chicago Opera, was hustled to the desk. The opera went on. The buzz of perplexity is heard in Continental musical circles. The Russian temperament is difficult to understand

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Russian Temper | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...Buzz is in fine shape. His arm still needs attention and for this reason he will stay for a few days with his uncle in West Newton. We shall start massages to loosen up the muscles in his arm and he will be all right in a short time. However, I doubt very much whether he will be able to play any more hockey this year, though he should be in trim for football in the fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOUT, TIGER'S HOCKEY STAR, WILL LEAVE HOSPITAL TODAY | 1/19/1924 | See Source »

...possible that another parody is about to be born? The history of that ancient literary form is an honorable one in the University. Aristocrats and Proletarians are not forgotten; the Harvard Magazine, now serenely buried, was once a recurrent ghost who mimicked himself from vari-colored pages; and the buzz of a recent mockgad-fly still echoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "EIGHT MOST" | 3/20/1923 | See Source »

...annoyances of studying in the Library is the constant buzz of conversation going on all over the hall. Part of this is entirely needless and part, at present, is unavoidable. A considerable portion of the patrons of Widener are day students who have no other place to get together except the Union,--and the Union, however democratic and universal, has dues. Also it is somewhat out of the way as a place to drop in between classes. Accordingly, the only common place of meeting left is Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREE SPEECH | 3/11/1922 | See Source »

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