Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...energetic enough to prove that Mae West was born before 1900. If, as the certificate stated, she was 18 in 1911, she must be 42 today Excitedly Myrtle Sands laid her discovery before her chief. Newshawks entered. The great fact-finding machinery of the U. S. Press began to hum...
...Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week American shoe retailers from both sides of the border conventioned. Said Chicago Retailer O. J. McClure: "I hope you have no shoe salespeople in Canada who mispronounce names, call customers 'dearie,' hum and stare and make customers nervous...
...Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine. Things really begin to hum when Duke Mantee's mob arrives at the front end of a nation-wide manhunt...
Switches clicked, the lathe-like machines began to hum. Seventeen minutes later in each of the 24 offices an operator opened the machine, withdrew a large cylinder, rushed it to a dark room. Another few minutes and the finished photograph of the wrecked airplane was on editors' desks around a 10,000 mi. circuit. Thus last week Associated Press inaugurated its new $1,000,000-a-year Wirephoto service (TIME...
Japan arms, in the news, and Harvard bites the dust of the Yale bowl, ho-hum...