Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band seemed to be playing musical chairs. The percussion man ran back & forth between kettle drums, cymbal and a toy drum, jangled some bells on the way, hammered a xylophone and, with evident pleasure, whammed a huge Chinese gong. Saxophone players switched to flutes, clarinets and even recorders; Sauter himself picked up a kazoo and produced sounds very much like bagpipes. Again the slate and another tune: The Doodletown Fifers. Two men played the piccolo, two the baritone saxophone, one the tenor saxophone. Then the three sax players put down their instruments and whistled. By the time they picked them...
...Lady Astor, an ... arrogant woman, being horrified at the idea that she could have married a U.S. Army officer. Nobody in his right mind would believe it ... And last, the driveling of Diana Barrymore. She observes . . . that women are no damn good ("They should be struck regularly, like a gong") . . . She doesn't need to be struck like a gong. Not at all. What she needs is a good, swift kick...
...even so, ordered him to pack his things and move out. To the reporters she explained that her own black eye had resulted from a domestic tiff four days earlier ("I don't mind being punched. Noel Coward said that women should be struck regularly like a gong and he's right"). In conclusion, she observed thoughtfully,"Women are no damn good...
...Crimson varsity started at a 38, then settled to a 32, where Lou McCagg kept the stroke for most of the race. Navy went out fast at the start, rowed the body of the race at about 31 or 32, sprinting at 36, and winning gong away. The Quakers, a quarter length behind Harvard until the final spurt, rowed at about 32-34 for the body of the race, sprinting...
Cause for Alarm. In Montreal, a 23-year-old pyromaniac tipped his hand by rushing into the fire station a few minutes before the gong rang, shouting: "Where's the fire...