Word: hums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time. By the Ottawas I am called "Little Crane." They know me as a descendant of their renowned Chief Pontiac. THE INDIAN DRUM Away by the lake hangs an Indian drum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" It always starts booming when the wind gods hum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" Whenever a wreck on the beach is toss'd, It gives one beat for each life that is lost, And ghosts are legion that have heard the turn That rolls from the head of the Indian drum. It keeps its vigil with a measured...
...instrument, Professor Theremin announced, was to abolish the mechanical difficulties of technique, to place music-making within the scope of anyone able to hum a tune. Rights of manufacture, he hinted, were for sale...
Third Day. At Paris, drowsy tourists and blowsy workpeople heard a hum and saw the Graf Zeppelin in the morning sky. She soared around the city's centre, then wafted towards Friedrichshafen...
...words crept into the strikers' back country vocabulary. Professional agitators taught them the word "sweatshop" which seemed particularly applicable to Southern mills, with their hungry hum ming machinery, high humidity,* closed windows, lint-laden air. Said one striker: "I ain't afeared of Hell. I've spent 20 summers in the mills...
Childishly simple in conception, couched in free verse, the libretto wallows in German sentimental-realism. Fog, snow, the hum of the motor, the ships at sea are all personified. The hero sings...