Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rising wrath of the cloistered dwellers in the vicinity of Harvard hall will make them feel a regretful sympathy with Princeton men at the recent edict in regard to bells and clappers. Edward A. McMillan, orange counterpart of Mr. Apted, has recently raised the fine imposed on pilferers of the college clapper from thirty to fifty dollars. So rudely does one of Princeton's fine old traditions suffer a financial reverse. At Harvard twins and their overshadowing elder brothers...
Rutgers College boys refused to be suppressed. The bell in old Queens Building did not peal its 8 o'clock summons. Authorities investigated, found the clapper stolen, found also a note: "Ye old tradition...
...acquisition. A deep tone not alone fails to irritate but even pleases the ear of the sleepless one who hears its seven o'clock tribute to tradition. And the solemn announcement that another class has departed its watch-pocketing professor (bad phrase) comes well, very well from its melodious clapper...
Into Chicago evenings last week, at ten, a phantom curfew tolled. There was, of course, no actual bell, no iron clapper to send austere waves of sound across the tranquility of the Loop. There was merely an edict-the police were to arrest all children under sixteen years of age whom they found on the streets, unaccompanied by adults, between the hours...
...announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President von Hindenburg at Berlin came...