Word: gong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city could telephone their choices to a central office or telegraph direct to Cambridge. Each week's winner should get a free trip to New York and a three day contract at the Radio City Music Hall. President Conant should be on hand at all times to give the gong...
...rabbit in a box with a rattlesnake, that the crowd lived the dread of every second with Pastor, watching the quick twitching motions of Louis' fists, starting, like a snake's tongue, only to draw back. Such was the suspense that a cheer rose with the gong that ended the first round. When Louis did start hitting, the agile Pastor made him miss, right, left and right again (see cut). The suspense continued right through the nine remaining rounds despite increasing boos at Louis for not being able to overtake the retreating, ducking Pastor. Loudest boo came when...
...lungs, Chekhov at last had to leave Russia altogether. With his wife to nurse him through his last illness, he went to Germany to die. On the evening of the night he died, Chekhov told his wife so many funny stories that she failed to hear the gong, missed her dinner. His body was brought back to Russia in a car that had been used to ship oysters in. Biographer Toumanova thinks that would have amused...
...gong brought trading to an end on the New York Stock Exchange one afternoon last week a group of men stepped forth upon the rostrum high over the paper-littered floor. One member of the group was Exchange President Charles Richard Gay, another Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was there to make a plea for New York's United Hospital Fund. Clerks were still yelling, messengers scurrying, tickers clacking. When Mr. Smith was introduced to the brokers even the sound-amplifying system could scarcely be heard above...
...gong signaled the end of the first 15-minute lap, but not a finger slackened...