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...everything that makes the fire engines clang is a fire. Sometimes it is a child's prank; sometimes it is a cat-a cat which, having climbed higher than it can bear, is meowing so piteously, so tediously, that the neighborhood sends for hook & ladder. Last week the Fire Department of White Plains, N. Y. revolted against cats, announced that in the future it would untree no cats whatsoever. Reasons: 1) too many firemen had been badly scratched; 2) apparatus off cat-chasing is not quickly available for fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: White Plains Revolt | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...only sound that really counts is the clang of shovels and cash register bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Old Word | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Later in the week Mustafa Kemal was awakened from a sound sleep by excited shouts, the clang of alarms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Strenuous Ghazi | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...noon approached, good Squire Baldwin took his stance, puffing the most often caricatured pipe in England. He listened intently, visibly. "Clang . . . clang . . . clang . . . clang!" began Big Ben?but at the fifth stroke a pigeon descended with whirring wings and spoiled everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin & Ben | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...third noon, a gust of wind blew away the Prime Minister's manuscript, and he not only chased after it but was stooping with his back to the camera when "Big Ben" began again, "Clang . . . clang . . . clang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin & Ben | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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