Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of its more pugnacious predecessors. It furnished a safety-valve for a lot of steam raised by the spring sun from rain-soaked undergraduate souls. Naturally it woke up a few people, but there were no serious fights, no property damaged and no one was hurt. Ho hum, pass the liver pills, Roderick...
...revitalization of Church music, it would have been stifled by the personality of the king. When Charles II attended church, he did not want music that expressed the inner essence of the ritual. He wanted to be amused and entertained; he wanted lively rhythms and catchy melodies, something to hum while waiting for the service to be over. Thus we have the peculiar fact of an age in which scarcely a drop of true religious music was composed...
...experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that...
...that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener: "Why, this thing can broadcast silence...
...according to how much distortion the reader sees in Junker Rauschning's solemn retrospective indignation. It is certainly unique for the picture it gives of Hitler snapping and shouting at his pals, swearing to make Germany a "core of steel" for a new European society, breaking off to hum motifs from Wagner. Pertinent gems from the Führer's frenzies...