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...altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding. Stealthily, with infinite precaution, she put out her foot and took another step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Little Rock | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...alumni would not have been able to keep the ball rolling at such a number of revolutions per minute for two months. Even though no one has referred to it by name yet, the moth-eaten specter of Harvard indifference may have begun again to walk abroad and clank its chain. It is not the first time that even a suspicion that the worthy spook is about again has set people by the cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLEEFUL GLIGG | 3/5/1926 | See Source »

...horse-shoe as well as any man. Faculties have long complained of the high costs of athletic teams but horse-shoe pitching Pennsylvanians supply their athletic needs at the nearest smithy. So enthusiastically have the students received the sport that Pennsylvania's "Big Quad" now tinkles with the merry clank of materialized good-luck. A freshman tournament later in the spring is to determine who is the "Champion Freshman Horse-Shoe Pitcher" at Pennsylvania, and keen competition for the title is expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROWING THE HORSE-SHOE | 3/11/1922 | See Source »

...clank, clank, clank, when out of order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE FOR THE TIMES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...That clank, clank, clank, when out of order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE FOR THE TIMES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

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