Word: pang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Ann Brought Home. Ann was sent to a neighboring town in Indiana for crepe de chine. She brought back a husband, as girls will. The trouble starts when the new bridegroom dreams fish farms when he should be thinking sawmill. However, it ends without a pang. Earl Carroll, known over the country for his daring revues, "bathtub" scandal, is producing the play. For him it is in the nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance...
...sharpened for the Prince's neck and the mob crying for compassion. Princess Turandot, icy white, on a Palace balcony, signals to the executioners to proceed. An unknown prince, thrilled by her beauty, is determined to win her or die by the selfsame enigmas. The second act: Ping, Pang and Pong, comic ministers, jabber of the seven thousand centuries of China's glorious past, of Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth of the stage, the bearded emperor high...
...Wells read this crude bit of tittle-tattle, he experienced a pang of annoyance which he proceeded to vent by dashing off for the press his own version of his meeting with Mr. Bigelow on the afternoon in question...
...given birth to seven children, and her master, despite her protests and tearful prayers, had already disposed of one daughter and four sons by sale. The woman, in her petition, wrote that the bitter laments of her children at thus being forced to separate from their mother sent a pang through her heart more acute than any she had ever suffered. "When, to her dismay, the hard-hearted master arranged to take away the baby slave that still was suckling at her breast, her endurance was broken down completely. She supplicated and prayed, as parents pray...
Traditions and landmarks are no longer as enduring as in the sleepy Cambridge of an earlier century, and their passing is often but of momentary interest. The removal of Nolen's Tutoring School from the old familiar premises, however, will cause more than one pang of sentimental regret; but the announcement that Little Hall is to be converted into a Freshman dormitory will take the sting out of this momentary grief. Although it will accomodate but sixty men its acquisition comes in the light of a gift from the gods...