Word: droned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
...tight formations of silvery U.S. bombers roared across the shoreline and straggled gamely back. At night the drone of British Lancasters filled the sky. Last month an impatient young lady wrote to the papers complaining that the noise kept her awake...
...England last Sunday, lean young men from the U.S. took English girls punting on the placid reaches of the upper Thames. English children played at storming the walls of Festung Europa. Maimed men, for whom the war is already over, sunned themselves by convalescent homes. The drone of motors grew steadily stronger...
...atrocities of war . . . the spectacle of Spaniards fighting among themselves; and all the time, like the drone of a bagpipe accompanying the louder noises of what is officially called history, the enormous stupidity of average men and women, the chronic squalor of their superstitions, the bestiality of their occasional violences and orgies . . . Goya recorded...
...villa in the South of France come a painter named Carroll (Victor Jory) and his second wife (Actress Bergner). They are a seemingly enraptured couple. For quite a while, people drink tea and drone on about Beauty in an atmosphere more amorous than ominous; then the wife turns weak and wan - though not from knowing that her husband is hitting it up with a young widow two villas away...