Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rising hum filled the still darkness of the hangar. Small motors were driving endless paper belts which, riding on pulleys and whizzing invisibly up & down within the columns, picked up electrical charges from the exciters below and piled them up on the balls above. One belt carried negative electricity, the other positive. In the galvanized atmosphere the hair of the watchers stood straight up, their elbows tingled, their fingertips glowed. Luminous halos began to fringe the balls...
When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up one of the seven telephones on his desk and listened to Mr. Porter's suggestion that National Distillers, aside from the dynamite of Repeal, was a pretty good thing at around $16 per share. Mr. Day cocked an eye at the ebony elephant on his desk. Mr. Porter needed...
...boys at Hotchkiss School (Lakeville, Conn.) trooped into their dining hall one night last fortnight and, after the sudden short hush for grace, fell to gobbling and talking in a cheery, noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master...
...fast as cable wires could hum. Legion National Commander Louis Arthur Johnson rebuked Easterwood: "Constitution prohibits honorary memberships in American Legion. Please govern yourself accordingly." Undaunted, Easterwood invited King Victor Emanuel to address the Legion's October convention in Chicago by radio, told him the Legion's 1936 convention would probably be held in Rome. The King gave Easterwood his warm, rabbit-toothed smile. Said Legion ary Easterwood of his new friends: "They both are war veterans of a country allied with us in the World War, and they have a right to wear the buttons...
...clubroom the Moscow Boys took up their instruments and played jazz as they had never played before. They played a waltz, then several French and English foxtrots. The young workers, most of whom were hearing jazz for the first time, were exhilarated but confused. Then Tsfasman called for "Ho Hum," popular three years ago in the U. S. When it was finished the audience cried for an encore. Jazzman Tsfasman had all but won his case. He ended with a rumba...