Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army and Big Business have tried to get the Führer to move Christmas this year to Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away...
...Full Confession," the second feature on the program, is still another of the ho-hum variety of gripping dramas...
...slow hum of Zeppelins at night was World War I's high horror note for civilians of Britain and France.* This war's note was so confidently expected to be the shattering bellow of dive-bombers that congested areas of France and England were evacuated before war was declared. Through last week, no such note was heard except for a non-bombing visit toward Paris by a few Nazi reconnaissance ships, who retreated as soon as spotted, and a jittery performance near Britain's big Thames-mouth base at Chatham...
...Zone, the Army dispatched 30 officers, 859 antiaircraft artillerymen, five bombers (to patrol vital areas), 31 pursuit planes. In the Canal's Gatun Lake a Navy gunboat took up a symbolic if otherwise ineffective vigil. In Washington Army-Navy procurers stepped up rearmament spending, made the U. S. hum with Preparedness...
...roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music is written for the carillon, carillonneurs have to be their own composers and arrangers. Even the best bells jangle and hum with unwanted overtones. If the wrong overtones clash, the carillonneur's music sounds like an erupting boiler factory...