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...Christmas day in the morning, bellringers spit on their hands; they catch hold of the ropes that go up into rimed steeples. "Ding dong," goes the first faint and shaken bell; swallows leap out of the belfry. "Ding, dong," peals the carillon, its notes dropping into the air like stones into water...
...last month had let her in for a 12-and-11 humiliation at Aliss Cummings' hands. Miriam Burns teed off this time with health on her side, with a determination to be revenged, with a caddy who rivalled Miss Cummings' faithful Joe Horgan for sagacity and devotion. Ding-Miriam, dong-Edith. All square at the 18th. All square at the 19th, at the 20th. On the 21st, with Miss Cummings down in 5, Miss Burns' fourth shot hung at the cup-lip, toppled...
...national championship in 1915 and 1919. He deposed Harvey Snodgrass, 1923 winner of the Newport Casino invitation singles and, paired with C. J. ("Peck") Griffin (his former national doubles championship partner), seemed about to dismiss two other Californians, the omnipresent Kinsey brothers, from the doubles. That match had gone ding-dong for four sets and nine games when Robert Kinsey, on a stretching "get", was crippled with cramps, had to default...
...DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...
...Ding dong, up and down, Sweetser and Marston played to a mutual standstill in 36 holes. They walked over to the first tee and halved their 37th hole in the figure 5. They drove to the 38th, Marston on, Sweetser off. Sweetser chipped, Marston putted, and his fifth stymie of the day made Sweetser runner-up, Marston champion...