Word: whizzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whizz-bangs they roar...
...travelers whizz over the surface of their country, picking up such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance...
...graduated to burlesque and vaudeville, and now rates tops in the art of making people laugh. He has acted in several movies, his last feature completed about five years ago. He likes Hollywood, but has no special interest there. His ambition, now, is to retire soon, and watch things whizz by from the sidelines...
...occasionally have declined to eat at the same table with the unpolished cameramen. Sports writers he divides into two schools-"Gee Whizz!'' and "Aw Nuts!''-and clearly prefers the latter. Toward press agents, City Editor Walker is tolerant: "Some are so useful and companionable that all newspaper men welcome them and their messages; others are such chiselers and bores that reporters and editors take fright at their approach." Edward L. Bernays, nephew of "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido, Dr. Sigmund Freud," is more important in Stanley Walker's estimation than...