Word: gong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappointed. Did the mob surge into sacred dormitory corridors causing shrieks and terror as it passed? Not exactly. Stray delegations wandered about on the first floor, and even a trifle abashed walked out; only the noble contingent which had penetrated Bertram swept off with the dinner gong and the keys. Did they get invited to have some ice cream and did they yelp in answer "we want beer." Not quite, except that the inspiring slogan actually did rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows someone did hazard that it must be Browne and Nichols...
...gong closed May trading in U. S. grain pits last week the Federal Farm Board, as it had promised to do, ceased stabilizing wheat prices. Board officials declined to reveal precisely how much wheat the U. S. had bought in the open market or how many U. S. dollars had been lost in price-pegging operations. Grain experts estimated, however, that the Board owned more than 200,000.000 bu. (exclusive of the 35.000.000 bu. sold abroad this spring) with a book loss of $90,000.000. Still undetermined was what the Board would do with the largest amount of wheat ever...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
...gong, Carnera ran out of his corner as lightly as a nautch girl and shoved a huge left at Maloney, who ducked. Maloney kept trying to hit the spot on Carnera's torso where a clean adhesive bandage marked the cracked rib. "Keep away, Jim," yelled the crowd, and Maloney obeyed, sometimes slapping the plaster, or standing on tiptoes to reach Carnera's face with a roundhouse swing. Although he was eight inches shorter he only fouled the brobdingnag once and then held out his gloves in apology. Carnera danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting...
Private Lives is written with a basic honesty that is apparent even beneath its not extraordinary plot and glib lines, almost every one of which is pure gold. Sample: "Some women should be struck regularly, like a gong...