Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia. Resolutely Lady Wood hurled a bottle of wine after the retreating ship, shouted her 50-word speech above a din of cries and crackling timbers, burst into tears...
...Tientsin issue in Tokyo, he last week gave way on the point which originally caused the Japanese Army to blockade Tientsin's foreign Concessions. Last April 9, Cheng Shi-kang, manager of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. Mr. Cheng was neither the first nor the last Japanese hireling to be assassinated, but he was no ordinary puppet. Most of the decrepit Chinese who have sold out to the enemy command little affection and no respect, have no influence even with the Japanese who use them. But Puppet Cheng...
Surrounded? When Cheng Shi-kang, Chinese official of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot to death in a movie theatre in the British Concession during the bang-bang scenes of the motion picture Gunga Din, Japanese demanded that British authorities hand over four suspected Chinese. British, claiming lack of evidence, refused. Promptly Japanese hinted they would make a "test case." Japanese companies began removing their supplies from the British and French Concessions which Japanese authorities threatened to surround, isolate from the world...
...Negroes can't vote in many parts of the country; we may be democratic, but how many hotels allow colored guests; we may be free, but why do most talented Negro artists live in virtual poverty? Why--why --why--over and over again the words to the song din that question into the cars of those who have listened to it--why a people must be submitted to the physical and moral subjugation that makes its songs temples of gloom and misery is the query of this freezing chant...
Where permanent Jewish courts do not exist, questions of law are decided, as they arise, by rabbis or councils of rabbis. Any Jew may bring a case before the Beth Din; indeed, it is his duty, if he is bothered about a point of the Law. He pays the court what he can and, as a man of faith, accepts its decisions as binding, † When the Beth Din sits (daily except religious holidays), the rabbis wear prayer shawls...