Word: buzzing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...destroyermen did not grieve long for the lost 50; they went discreetly, quietly after more. Last week-as Washington's bars began to buzz with the rumor that Britain might get more old destroyers -Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that contracts had been let for 40 more "tin cans," to cost an average of $6,300,000 each. They will be paid for out of authorizations already made for the two-ocean programs. After previous contracts were awarded, there was still some tonnage left over. Navy men passed the word that the new building would slow...
Soon every mechanically-minded Californian had heard of the terrific speed of the Doolings' doodlebugs. A Fresno real-estate man, Richard Hulse, was so fasciriated that he organized a miniature-auto racing club in his home town, got Manhattan Publisher Charles Penn to give the little buzz-buggies a plug in his national magazine, Model Craftsman. Within 60 days, 40 clubs sprang...
...Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz saw. But the arrival of sound was tough on Mexicans, who had to follow the dialogue either with badly written Spanish titles superimposed on the picture or with Spanish voices clumsily dubbed on to the sound track...
...McSweeney were third string forwards, Larry Hall was the center, and Bill Jackson and Jack Clarke were the guards. On the fourth it was Jim Jenkins and Howie Ezell at forward, Pete Macgowan at center, and A1 Reade and Ray Holtan in the back court. Red Scully and Buzz Downer were not scrimmaging yesterday but be long on the list...
...third period the Carrmen got under way, and led by Danny Poor and Buzz Sawhill they threatened the Brown nets several times, but a score wasn't in the books, for each attack was finally repulsed. During the fourth period the Bruins took over and made more than one serious stab through the Crimson defense. Owing to the sparkling work of goalie Jack Penson, none of these drives ended in scoring. The overtime period found the mud and cold telling on the players' efficiency, as their efforts became sluggish and the deadlock was not broken...