Word: dinfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Athenian motorbus chauffeurs adjusted their motors to back-fire last week, then drove for several hours around and around the Houses of Parliament, creating a potent, earsplitting, staccato din...
...that explained the din. Young Barnum was merely listening, as a child, to a circus band. The general naivete of the first movement, the Connecticut hymnology, all suggested the Yankee scene amid which Phineas T. Barnum wriggled his toes in the dirt...
...write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot dim the din...
...shouting dies," "Lest we forget," "The flanneled fools at the wicket, or the muddied oafs at the goals," "Who dies if England Live?" "Sisters under their skins," "The 'eathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone," "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din," and many another...
...once "tin-panning" began. Crowds of strikers, their wives, children surrounded the houses of miners who had returned to work, kept up hour after hour a din upon tin pans, kettles, pails, until the family of the absent "scab" or "blackleg" promised to do their utmost to dissuade him from work. Once the worker returned home, usually besmeared with mud balls and rotten fruit, the tinpanners not only resumed their din but nailed down the windows and tied shut the doors of "blackleg houses...