Word: gong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge pressed a button in the White House. No secretary or stenographer entered; no uniformed blackamoor thrust his head around a screen, but far away in Chicago a gong rang; the lights in the huge amphitheatre of the Chicago Riding Club flashed on; a fine brass band assisted by a $50,000 organ struck up successively the national anthems of Belgium, France, England, the U. S., while a mighty shout arose from the crowd. National Horse Show had begun...
...Harvard Dramatic Club," Mr. MacGowan writes in part, "seems to me to be doing much more intelligent and important work in producing such exceptional plays as 'The Makropoulos Secret', 'The Moon Is a Gong', and 'Mr. Paraclete' than we ever did with our Harvard-made plays...
...similar mind is Philip Bale, who under the title of "The Dramatic Renaissance at Harvard," writes in an optimistic vein on the Harvard dramatic situation. Referring to the Dos Passos '16 play, "The Moon Is a Gong", which, according to Hale, marked a new area in Harvard dramatics, the Boston reviewer writes in part...
...circumstance that the first play of the new policy happened to be in itself a failure has nothing to do with the case. That policy was boldness; and whatever the charges to be laid against the artistry of "The Moon Is a Gong", upon other scores, upon the important one it mocked obloquy. The play unquestionably possessed the virtue for which the Dramatic Club picked it: that it could not be charged with same-ness. It was anything else you will; but not 'just another one'. The strike for originality which its choice represented was eminently successful...
...service that followed differed in no particular from a Roman High-Mass except that it was sung in English. At the moment when the bread and wine were consecrated, a gong rang and the kneeling congregation intoned "Blessed, praised and adored forevermore be Jesus Christ on his throne of glory." Every session of the congress began with an "Ave Maria." The favorite hymn was one ending with the refrain, "Hail, Mary, full of grace." Rosaries, crucifixes and sacred images were offered for sale to the members. During the three days of sessions a number of eminent churchmen spoke, among them...