Word: dong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ding, dong bell, Market gone to hell! Who put her there? Little Tommy Bear! Who'll geeva pull? Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus...
...completely mobilized, equipped with hand grenades, field artillery, machine guns and submachine guns, took the field, led by a squadron of 20 roaring battle planes. Kwantung gunboats shelled the rebels from the river. Kwantung airplanes shelled the rebels. For days the line of battle wavered to and fro- ding, dong-Kwangsi. Kwantung. The Kwantung airplanes and gunboats finally settled the scale. The attacking Kwangsis retreated with heavy losses, leaving 1,500 captives...
Thus the start should play an unusually important part in tomorrow's race. If the crews get away even, they will probably have a ding-dong battle throughout the four miles to the New London bridge, for although Yale has the edge in experience, the crews are almost equally powerful. Yale's advantage in experience--six Elis have raced the four gruelling miles as opposed to four Harvard sweep-swingers, and Laughlin has rowed two winning races while Watts has never set the pace in a four-mile contest--gives the Blue whatever slight pre-race odds there...
...Canadian Maritime Province and Provincial champion,* Mrs. Babbitt rolled up points; the first set was hers, 6-3. Her blood fired with youth's impatience, Miss Babbitt rallied to win the second set, 6-1. Nor did she pause at that. It was Mrs. Babbitt, ding, Miss Babbitt, dong, until the latter won again at 6-1, able daughter of a mother of ability...
...typical of Mr. Fairbankses later manner. The scene is the Spanish Main, the time the seventeenth century, the plot, in so far as there is any, centers about the Duke of Arnaldo, whose ship is seized by pirates who cause the death of his father. The Duke escapes--Dong always escapes--and swears eternal vengeance against, the pirates. He beats the pirate captain in a fierce duel, becomes the pirate leader, captures the princess, walks the plank for crying to save her life, swims several leagues both under and on the water to effect her rescue and finally overcomes...