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Word: bonging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir to give her a long bong jour . . ."). Charley alone is enough to show why Novelist Elizabeth Bowen considers Henry Green "one of the living novelists whom I admire most." But Housemaid Edie, who builds their furtive little affair into a full-blown storm of love and wedding bells (in Britain), is an even more subtle and profound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Treasure | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Btfsplk Does It | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Bing bong bell, It's ten and only one can tell. The master of the metropolis Fits his name quite well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The $22,500 Footsteps | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Crac . . . pchcht . . . bong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Bong . . . pchcht . . . crac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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