Word: hums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ride was well-fed, laden with campaign fodder, and already lumbering off on a well-plotted course toward the campaign of 1956. Around Republican National Committee headquarters in the Cafritz Building, just three blocks from the old State Department building where Ike made his announcement, there was a lively hum of activity as the President spoke. The staff numbered 125 workers (up from the off-year complement of 75), and was rapidly growing to its campaign peak of 300. In a large, pale-blue, partitioned-off room, young writers turned out speech kits and campaign slogans. Researchers diligently probed...
...five saxes play with savage bite or else hum in their eerie, split harmonies behind a pagan trumpet solo; the three trombones clip off their own high-swinging ensemble passages; and the four trumpets blaze away with such ferocity that the effect becomes strangely airy and bodiless. But the chief reason for all the internal excitement is the Duke's new drummer, Sam Woodyard. He sits, lean and still, behind his battery, neatly punctuating every phrase, coming as close as any man could to playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch...
...More last-minute changes. More teletyping between Key West and Washington. Late at night, Ike decided that he was satisfied. McCann was told. Stencils in the White House were cut. Mimeograph machines began to hum on 3,000 copies of the State of the Union message for Congress and the press...
...Biographer Carrington traces the story, now that the tumult and the shouting have died, Kipling rises from his grave to confront the world with neither a hum ble nor a notably contrite heart. He had the courage to hate -a healthy hate of all those who sneered at the seriousness of the white man's burden, who denigrated duty, honor, country. Americans, who in the past decade have had to accept concern for an area far greater than that ever ruled by the British Empire, may today better understand Rudyard Kipling -"this literary man," as Biographer Carrington puts...
...whirling combination of lilting tunes, vagabonds, sentiment, and flop-house philosophy makes Pipe Dream one of the year's top musicals. It's almost as if Rogers and Hammerstein conspired to confuse the audience, making it nearly impossible to pick one song over another to hum after the show. If you prefer catchy melodies, they are there; if you want the "Some Enchanted Evening" type, they are there too. Although many of the songs could reach the Hit Parade on their own merit, each is smoothly slipped into the stage antics of the Cannery Row characters, taken from Steinbeck...