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Word: bongfest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...meets in London to have a good go at the bells of Westminster Abbey and other London belfries. These meetings have been held every year since 1637. Even London's great plague of 1665, and the fire of 1666, failed to keep the College Youths from their appointed bongfest. Last week, at the Society's 302nd annual shindig, the "Bore War" did what fire and plague could not. This time the members did their Stedman Caters and Oxford Singles with hand bells in the upstairs room of a blacked-out London pub. Reason: open-air change-ringing might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bell Ringers | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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