Word: gong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of sticking strictly to a discussion of prices, however, the President used the word "dollar," which rings like a gong in the ears of every banker, broker, businessman and speculator in the U. S. All was quiet on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when the routine White House story was slowly tapped out on the news ticker. As soon as the brokers spied the word "dollar," a mighty shout uprose: "Devaluation! Roosevelt plans to devalue the dollar some more...
...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...
...gong sounded feebly, horns droned, strings quavered mistily and the curtain went up on what was supposed to be a kiosk on the Bosporus. Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four...
...director of the Broadway success "The Pure in Heart," written by John Howard Lawson, also author of "Success Story." In the summer he managed the Millbrook, N. Y. Theatre. To him John Dos Passes dedicated three plays, including "The Garbage Man," and "The Moon is a Gong...
...electric gong signaled the beginning of the concert. An attendant notified Mrs. Coolidge and she straightened her leopard shawl, took her usual place four pews from the front. Of the quiet string music she heard nothing. But the programs were enough gratification as her mind reviewed them. In three days, of the 23 works played, 13 were dedicated to her, five were first performances anywhere, four first in the U. S. On the wall was a new bronze tablet, proclaiming Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the "fairy godmother of chamber music." The unfamiliar harmonies bewildered many of the Berkshire neighbors but they...