Word: dum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dum-Dum...
...flunking grade for your writer who characterized the musical theme of Dragnet as "DUM-da-da-DUM" [TIME, Jan. 25] ... I'm certain all my music students would have passed with honors by providing the correct solution, "DUM-da-DUM-DUM . . ." CALDWELL TITCOMB Brandeis University Waltham, Mass...
...brave hero, Sergeant Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb), have passed into U.S. folklore. Across the country, children shout: "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday!" When asked what happened to Friday, they scream: "He's out on a case!" An orchestration of Dragnet's ponderous musical theme (DUM-da-da-DUM) became No. 7 on the Hit Parade, and the show's deadpan characters have been parodied on such bestselling records as St. George and the Dragonet and Little Blue Riding Hood...
...With its early beginning and 164 years of tradition, Porcellian has always represented the final club to the non-clubbed world. Begun in an era when Cambridge was small, isolated, and arid in entertainment, the club provided a necessary social break in the scholastic routine. The Porcellian's motto Dum vivimus vivamus was typical of the early attitude of the members--no lofty mission, no serious purpose, just jovial pleasantry...
...Geez--a regular dragnet," someone shouted, as a dozen burly New Haven policemen lumbered purposefully up the street. A trumpet bugled "dum-da-da-dum." The ever-increasing crowd of Yalies roared. "We want 'em arrested!" shouted a fellow in blue shorts. "We want 'em arrested!" chanted the mob. The bandsmen jeered back, taking up the melody of "To Hell with Yale," but by now the police had arrived and boarded the busses. They ordered the caravan to a nearby police precinct. The uninhibited enthusiasm of the bandsmen dulled only little. "What do they want, their pictures in Life?" asked...