Word: dong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Duchess and the Waiter" was hors d'oeuvre to Miss America and the place was crowded. I had seen Miss America before--so--I rather centered on the movie--tried to--I couldn't. The two ladies behind me were chewing gum which clicked with a ding-dong rhythm against their plebian palates, monotonous, eternal. I shuddered. Came a voice, "She loves him but she don't want him to know it--see." The comedy followed, a Mack Sennett-- "That's not a real mustache see. It don't grow straight. We only a false one." I asked about...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock the University soccer team will play Haverford in their final Intercollegiate Soccer League contest. The game this afternoon comes rather as an anti-climax following last week's ding-dong tie battle with Yale. Neither the University nor Yale can win the league title, but the outcome of today's match may settle both the leadership and the cellar position in the final standing of the rival soccer outfits...
...Ding, dong, dell, Chancellor Ernest H. Lindley was in the well. Who put him in? Governor Jonathan Davis. Who pulled him out? Governor Ben S. Paulen...
...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...
...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...