Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commenced the drafting of a tax-up-ping bill...
...last week wandered a newshawk of the New York Sun. He buttonholed Keeper Walter Thuman. Said the newsman to Zooman Thuman: "What most annoys you here?'' Zooman Thuman to the newsman: "Balls are what I fear." Mourned Keeper Thuman: "Footballs, baseballs, tennis balls, golf balls, ping-pong balls, billiard balls, marbles-they're all bad for elephants. But the worst are those ordinary rubber balls that children bounce. They bounce them near the cages. The elephants gulp them down. Then they get sick." A hard rubber ball, said he, killed a hippopotamus in the Cincinnati zoo. nearly...
...their rooms (out of bounds). When Chaperone Lulu knocked on the door Walter hid under the bed. Chaperone Lulu suspected nothing, the girls kept straight faces till "one of Miss Lulu's respectable feet kicked an earthenware object under the bed. There was a musical 'ping,' immediately followed by an almost hysterical outburst on the part of the eight girls." Everything, however, remained intact...
First Night All four contestants, even the usually placid Lenz (onetime paper box manufacturer & ping pong champion) and Mrs. Culbertson, were nervous. Noises from a party next door came through the wall. Troops of inebriated bridge addicts found the Culbertson door, were prevented from entering by five porters. On the first hand, Mr. Jacoby bid three no-trump, went down one. The play continued in a manner so erratic that even novice bridge addicts detected painful foibles. On the second hand the Culbertson team bid five diamonds, went down four. The fourth hand was generally conceded to be the most...
Exhibiting a dashing type of play, an official ping-pong team easily defeated the West End Boys' club of Boston yesterday afternoon with the loss of only one match. D. M. Frame defeated Goldberg, 21-12, 21-11; H. W. Cole '82 defeated Hirsch, 21-7, 21-11; M. A. Hoffman '34 defeated Bodensky, 21-10, 21-6; G. D. Key '33 bowed to Monamen, 21-19, 18-21, 21-19; and W. C. Thompson '32 defeated Mersce...