Word: whirr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a peer explorer is told partly in pictures but principally in words English, French, Hindu, Indian, Chinese. It is played by an orchestra, on reeds, on drums and a solo saxophone. It shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night by the oasis when I read in your eyes." The cast...
...Whizz! Whirr! With humming tires and throbbing motor there sped down a deserted road near Epernay the great Marshal Pétain-who once held Verdun against Germany's Crown Prince...
Money makes noise. There is money in the screams of locomotive brakes, rumble of subways, shrieks of factory whistles, whirr of machinery, cracks of pile drivers, cries of peddlers. There is "big money" in the clamor of exchanges, in the shouts of bidders, the scurrying of page boys, the ringing of telephones, the rattle of tickers. When money is plentiful, easy, the world's marts are thunderous with the din of handling it, transmuting it, losing or winning it. But when money is scarce, tight, there is silence...
...Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid the clang of street cars and the whirr of machines...
...best known symphony, "Ballet Mécanique," nearly precipitated a riot in Paris. The weird whirr of wood, rubber, steel was radical enough to set the audience howling with conflicting passions of admiration and disgust. But, in addition, the propeller was placed facing them. When it started its great whirling, thereby affording the symphony a sustaining tone analogous to the bass drum, the umbrellas in the front rows, together with hats, skirts, wigs of the favorably as well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone...