Word: clang
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...that is special, fascinating, even fine about it, and much in its mood for a modern audience to respond to. With bitter and debunking cynicism, Shakespeare slashed in Troilus at the great fabric of the Trojan War, to rend its romance and heroism to tatters, to reduce its Homeric clang to verbosity and decadence...
...Clang, Clang, Clang. In San Francisco, after he crashed into the rear of an auto, backed up, clobbered the car twice more, police arrested George Latta, charged him with operating his streetcar while intoxicated...
With due regard for the Middle Ages, the days of walled towns and the portcullis should long since have ended. But every night the College's foremost medievalists keep alive the tradition. At 10 p.m. the University policemen clang shut two of the three gates leading into the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue. After that hour Lamont Library stands as a besieged fortress, nearly isolated from the Houses because of an outmoded regulation. House-bound students must trudge all the way to the Holyoke or Quincy Street exits before they can return to Plympton Street--the logical path to Adms, Leverett...
...Columbia). Clean-cut Doris seems to have gotten in over her head here. Why do some girls like some men? Answers Doris: "Some are charmin', and some have looks./Some have money and some read books/but my guy, he's got so much Ooh Bang, Jiggly jang . . . [clang, clang...
...billing herself in burlesque as "The Last of the Red-Hot Manvilles." "When Tommy passes on," she said, "I'll be there at the funeral with a long black veil that bulges in front. That bulge will be a little old cash register going 'cling-clang-cling...