Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 10 to 10:15 o'clock this morning the Square subway station will hum with the well-ordered bustle of the pride of American youth falling into line. For 900 West Point Cadets will then march through the Yard and then submit to dismisal. At 11:15 one section will be reformed to march to lunch; at 11:45 the other section will also be called to the Union's noon-hour snack...
...Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could a first-night audience, half drawn from Who's Who and half from the Social Register, roar with...
Last week the Detroit press discovered a child prodigy. Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also...
...larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment of Kenosha's labor leaders, the Legionnaires quoted A. F. of L.'s William Green in favor of R. O. T. C. Labormen immediately made wires to Washington hum. Next day William Green reversed himself...
...sorry," she said. "You reminded me so much of a body named Vag, an old friend of mine. I've been looking forward to meeting him again His cronies down on the river bank haven't seen hum this year, but they though he might be up here. That's why I breezed...