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Word: harrumph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glory, Not Gold. The time was fast, but the pros made it look slow. With a harrumph that "it's a good thing for recruiting-it's not really the money we're after," Britain's army and air force warmed up. The first man, Army Captain R. M. ("Red Rory") Walker, 29, rode a motorcycle from Marble Arch to a floating dock on the Thames, leaped into a helicopter, transferred to a jet trainer at Biggin Hill R.A.F. field for the flight to Villacoublay, eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Fun & Frolic | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...blackouts. At least half the movie is made up of wacky little vaudeville routines, in which a stock Englishman and a stock Frenchman alternate the pratfalls. Major (ret.) William Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. (played by Jack Buchanan, the British George M. Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best years East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition of the late Robert Benchley) is a middle-aged owl with a skid-mark mustache who leaps at every idea, flailing with all extremities, as though it were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...waves lapped with a feathery sound on a soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with the gorgeous sound of the Queen Mary's deep bass whistle, and ending with the horrid harrumph of the West Quoddy Head horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds of Our Times | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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