Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theorist. In The Bronx, Sing Gong was arrested for trying to rob a Chinese laundry by waving a .38-caliber cartridge, demanding money, threatening that otherwise he would find a gun somewhere, put the bullet in it, come back...
Then, at one minute to ten, the confusion subsided; all ears were cocked. The husky gong of Big Ben clanged. London's assorted traffic raced for the first time across the Thames's new Waterloo Bridge, and a nineteen-year-old political squabble ended...
When a Hindu wants attention, he beats on a gong. To drive away evil luck, he blows a bleating blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The occasion was an evening of Hindu dances, put on by two Hindus, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila, who live, teach and foster their dance troupe in the backwaters of Manhattan...
...Krol under the bar and go into Heidon," grunted his sober friend, Wun Lung Gong. "The game isn't till tomorrow and I'll have to Carey you to it, anyhow. That's the waitress...
...Most sophisticated and euphonious of the Fahnestock records are those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting...