Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture was flung together in the U.S. with the blessing of the National Council for American Soviet Friendship. A flatulent commentary with lines like "Fly, you banners-there is no wind strong enough to blow you down" is ping-ponged between Blues-Singer Libby Holman and mopey Actor Morris Carnovsky. The famous suspense with which Director Sergei Eisenstein prefaced the battle in Alexander Nevsky has been unmercifully hacked when half a minute of editorial discretion would have kept it whole, and the excellent battle music which Prokofieff contrived for that sequence becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling...
...Another vicious ball-swatter is short-tempered, tough Harold Ickes. His favorite game: table tennis (ping-pong, as Mr. Ickes plays...
...means of a public address system, where three softball games with mixed teams were in progress, while at the other end of the grounds on a Badminton court, the Shuttlecock (bird) was taking a terrific beating from the rackets of both men and women. The tennis courts and the ping pong tables on the porch of Briggs Hall were used continuously...
Chaplain (Colonel) William D. Cleary received the gift consisting of rugs, individual easy chairs, lounges, library tables, reading lamps, a piano, and a ping-pong table. Introduced by the Invocation pronounced by Chaplain J. C. Ryan, the proceedings featured Sidney L. Rindler who spoke in behalf of the council and expressed his pleasure to be able to contribute towards the war effort. Dr. Philip G. Berman and Bennett Silverblatt, vice-president of the council and chairman of the War Work Committee were the other speakers of the evening...
...office force at the Headquarters in Germanic Museum are finding considerable relief and relaxation in the newly opened Day Room which has been rather attractively furnished with ping-pong table, easy chairs, victrola, piano, and various games...