Word: hums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Mahon is a 30-year-old songwriter from Glasgow who cannot read music. But he can hum a tune and rhyme a verse, and a month ago he hummed into a recording machine, packed the record and a verse to go with it off to a publisher. Adele England, creator of steps for the Lambeth Walk, which swept England in 1938, heard it and devised a courtly old-world dance to match...
...bureaucracy) first deny that K. has a job there at all, then grudgingly concede that he may have one. K. tries desperately to reach the Castle by telephone. "The receiver gave out a buzz of a kind that K. had never heard on a telephone. It was like the hum of countless children's voices-but yet not a hum, the echo rather of voices singing at an infinite distance-blended by sheer impossibility into one high but resonant sound which vibrated on the ear as if it were trying to penetrate beyond mere hearing." K. asks when...
...Praise ye the Lord," sang the chorus of white & Negro children. The Lord may have heard, but the audience was busy with other praiseworthy subjects. The hum of heterogeneous good will that rose from UNESCO's well-wishers almost drowned out the song. The music teacher who had rehearsed the chorus for weeks was so angry the orchid almost popped off her black evening dress; good will created its own exasperating tensions...
...80th Congress had moved into Washington like a lusty construction gang bent on rebuilding the town. But as yet they had neither torn down nor raised one house. Last week, above the clashing and grinding of the legislative machinery in Washington, a sharp-eared listener could hear a steady hum. It came from Albany. Governor Thomas E. Dewey was purring along like a pilot plant...
...exhilarating hum of high production and few strikes, everyone seemed to have forgotten the ugly word: recession. Last week, they were sharply reminded of it. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics stared into its crystal ball and found it filled with dark clouds. Unless steps are taken to bolster purchasing power, said BAE, the U.S. will probably have a recession toward the end of this year...