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The bittersweet words of Mr. Trimingham and Mr. Trott, a jingle attributed to a U.S. Navyman on duty in expensive Bermuda in World War II (and sung to the tune of Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean), were being cheerfully chorused in Bermudian cabarets almost every night last week. In a...
"A slum dramatist, a guttersnipe who could jingle a few words together." That was how Playwright Sean O'Casey (The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock) summarized what much of the Irish press said of him and his works. Absolutely correct, agrees O'Casey-and proud...
The broadcast ends with a rendition of Jingle Bells-in Russian.
He is still bothered by two items of tournament atmosphere: the click of cameras and the spectators who jingle pocket change. "The change-jinglers," he complains, "always wait until you reach the top of your backswing, then there's a silence like a kitchen clock stopping. It wouldn'...
It was not until last winter, when Harry Truman noticed that the movement of crowds in the Blue Room made the crystal chandelier jingle ominously, that any really thoroughgoing inspection was made. Then horrified engineers found the second floor beams so weakened that they limited the occupancy of the presidential...