Word: humse
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Close to Port Francqui and duly inspected by Their Majesties hums Leverville, a famed palm-oil extracting centre of the great British firm of Lever Brothers, "World's Largest Soap Makers." The late, picturesque William Hesketh Lever, who became Viscount Leverhulme, was a favored business crony of Uncle Leopold...
Laugh and the world laughs with you: and so it is when you sing. Apollo sang, and his worshippers joyously followed his example. Now the Glee Club sings, and the world of Harvard hums in sympathy. The Chapel, filled with the remembrance of many an austere hymn, tosses back the...
He conducts wholly from memory, with light, cork-tipped batons imported from Italy. He rarely uses the same stick twice. He often hums while conducting. He will have no guests at his rehearsals.
Here at last is something that we don't have to abolish at Dartmouth, because that we don't have any. True, we have our Palacopitus and our Occom Council. Hums are duly planned, freshman fights restrained this side of barbarism, football rallies tenderly nurtured, train concessions awarded. But all...
"Not that she decries the phonograph. There is a very definite place for it in her life. She uses it while she is scrubbing that dirty floor we spoke about. She mops to music. Or hums scout songs while she plies the dustcloth.