Word: banging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese estimates (salt to taste...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Claude Joseph ("Brad") Bradley, cement salesman whose friends recently celebrated his approaching death with a bang-up party (TIME, July 31), still had cancer of the spine, still lived, although Mayo Clinic physicians gave him only a few weeks in May. Said Salesman Bradley, hearty, slightly more hale and still selling plenty of cement: "The old docs tell me I'm getting along swell. For a dead man I'm doing all right...
Although the contest was called off the tea went over with a bang as 250 Harvard and Radcliffe students jammed into the main reception room of P.B.H. and bent elbows over the ten tables...
Defensive highlight of the afternoon was the work of Tom Healey, Loren McKinney, and Moses Hailett. McKinney, who has been out for the past few days with an injury, returned to action with a bang, stemming A team sweeps at his end and nailing without gain the safety man receiving punts...
...urchins with Left Bank literary tastes were in a great dither last week. Bang on top of promises of children's books from two super-highbrows, Spinster Gertrude Stein* and childless Thomas Stearns Eliot†, Expatriate Kay Boyle (three children), noted for her selfconsciously brilliant short stories, published her first fairy tale, The Youngest Camel...