Word: dronings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of his talk was taken up with various recent cases. He talked about the Herschel kidnapping case, explaining how the kidnappers had been identified by Herschel's having remembered at what times he had heard the drone of an airplane going overhead. The whole case was entirely cleared up and the men convicted, he pointed out, within 19 days, except for the lawyer who was sentenced after six months to ten years, a year for every $1000 he had accepted...
...ether asking Burbank for a radio bearing. The Burbank operator was puzzled to note that Pilot Blom was using a daytime radio frequency. He asked the plane's position. Pilot Blom replied: "Wait a minute." The operator waited. But he heard no voice through his earphones, no drone of motors in the sky. In a few minutes frantic United launched a search, but not until next morning did a flyer spot the tragedy from...
Those few benighted souls who were still in Cambridge at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon were startled by the steady drone of what sounded like a mammoth fire siren, a signal for an air raid, or perhaps even a recruiting call for the next war. Puzzled students wondered where the fire was and how big it must have been to evoke such an awe-inspiring noise...
...both went to Groton and Yale. Afterward, both dabbled in Chicago politics but with notably different approaches. Cousin Bertie remained true to his class, performed efficient civic service as an orthodox Republican. Cousin Joe turned social-conscious and, along with several novels and plays, wrote Confessions of a Drone in which he protested the existence of rich parasites like himself. He helped organize a Municipal Ownership League, ran for office in 1909 on the Socialist Ticket. In 1914 he settled down to run the Tribune with Cousin Bertie...
...most enthusiastic crowd of his campaign. Twenty-five thousand Republicans bobbed to their feet, 25,000 voices roared, 25,000 U. S. flags were waved as he stepped out on the platform. Inspired, the Nominee responded with the best speaking of his career. Hardly a trace of the schoolboyish drone with which he began his campaign appeared as the Nominee masterfully set his audience laughing and booing at Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 demands for economy, went on to attack his opponent with forceful conviction: "As for his assurances that the budget would be balanced-well, these political hush-darlings...