Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still the angering hum of change, Duncan listens only to the harmonic rhythm of the seasons, the shrill "kree kree" of a crying hawk, the explosion of hot sun on ripe tobacco leaf. He scours the countryside to breed an aging mare of a great blood line, and his father's death is somehow symbolically salvaged by the birth of a perfect colt. A second marriage of his own turns to ashes when he discovers that his wife is his neighbor's castoff doxy. Lonely and alone, he rides Chief, the young stallion, deeper into his estate where...
Chunks in the Casserole. The fact was that there has been a hum of gossip in Britain for years about the Duke's high jinks, particularly at parties given by his bohemian cronies of the Thursday Club, which included Parker. U.S. tabloid correspondents dug up "palace sources" who said that the royal household was disturbed about rip-roaring stag parties at the club, and had dropped Mike Parker so he would not be around to encourage the Duke to go Thursdaying. Other correspondents, however, found sources who said that the real trouble involved parties that were not always stag...
...full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost gallery it is. Anyang, "the spirit of the dead," walks about moaning "Meh, meh, meh," and will "eat your soul" unless you hum back at him in a gentle singsong. Tall Timakanā, "the leg-bone ghost," has big, swollen knees that beat together when he walks and make a noise like "ti-ye-wo, ti-ye-wo." The aé lives in the trees "like a very large spider monkey...
...nicely balanced performance of a Bach aria with obbligato, they presented Gustav Holst's Four Songs for Voice and Violin. Holst wrote these to please a friend who said she liked to sing as she fiddled, but on presenting them to her the composer was told, "I can only hum when I play." As long as two performers are necessary, Holst could have wished none better than Hurwitz and Miss Smith to present his simple, modal settings...
...dial. Step 1. "Look in the directory for the number [you have your choice of several]. If the information is not in the directory, dial 'Information'," (which seems logical enough). Step.2. "Lift the handset." (Yes.) Step 3. "Listen for the dial tone before dialing. This steady humming sound tells you that the dial equipment is ready for your call." (Boy! This is one hum we want to hear talk!) Step 4. "Go to heck." (This is surely a misprint, else, first steps are indeed misleading!) Then, there can be no mistake, it says: "One and two party line WOodlawn customers...