Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spielbound for 210 minutes. In one triple metaphor, he summarized television drama as "celluloid sausage coming down the pike by the ream." Without referring to his own indifferent and unoriginal shows, Susskind estimated that TV as a whole had become "90% travesty, a gigantic comic strip, a huge ho-hum. I tremble for TV as a professional practitioner-as a father-as a citizen...
Ralph: I can hum a little...
...program. Foreign aid is a perennial problem-How much? In what form?-to the point that it has become a bit of a bore to many U.S. citizens, although they have always paid the bill. But Rusk last week discovered that the Foreign Relations Committee was in no ho-hum mood...
...next door neighbor kindly said, "Hope you can stand another hour of this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night, when most Pennypackerites have classes on Friday; and, second, that, if such a party were the scene in my pad, our kindly proctors would quickly disperse us. Justice? Craig...
Gitter, in his capacity as actor, turns her shipping magnate husband--those who cut Hum 2 infrequently will identify him as Menelaus--into a Runyanesque caricature of the Bronx boy who makes real good...