Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University officials do more than tolerate rah-rah-ism: last week Assistant Dean Lippincott told the Crimson "We'd do anything to get a more cohesive group." As an example, Princeton has never riveted down the clapper to the Nassaue Hall bell, which tradition decrees must be stolen annually by the freshman class. The class of '50 ran off with 40 clappers in their year, and each time the University bought a new one and tied it half-heartedly in place...
After setting on the Bertram Hall clapper, they ran out to the square, where thirsty students were clubbed, police were stoned, and the Brattle Square Police Station rocked under the attack of the augury mob trying to rescue an arrested student...
...Here's a corker, he said, producing a clipping headed "Cop Clubs and Bombs Rout Harvard Rioters." In response to the mysterious disappearance of the Memorial Hall bell clapper, 2000 students, mostly freshmen, had broken into Radcliffe dormitory and ran through the halls screaming "We want out bell clapper and we want beer...
...present, WFDR will concentrate on news and music. Five nights a week five liberal commentators (John Carmody, Robert Nathan, Marquis Childs, Mrs. Raymond Clapper, John Herling) will alternate in bringing the news from Washington. WFDR hopes to supplement forums, educational and health programs with string ensembles, choral groups and dramatic shows supplied at times by I.L.G.W.U. talent (in 1937 an I.L.G.W.U.-produced revue, Pins and Needles, was an outstanding Broadway success). Boasts big, white-haired Frederick Umhey: "We plan to make WFDR the most articulate town-meeting hall, the outstanding music hall, the most attractive cultural center in New York...
Lieut. Leroux and four other gendarmes drove to Bazouges, where Leroux and his sergeant climbed up the church bell tower. There they found a bicycle repairman and a carriagemaker smoking their pipes and swinging the clapper against the big bell...