Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poor Tom on Lear's heath, was befriended by Quong Lee, Chinese storekeeper, to the day when his first short story was published. Calm faces of Canton and Malaya move through mist down a narrow London street; in bad doorways, sailors' knives flash; the rain beats a tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind sniffs under the door. Tom, the Hardcress Kid, is safe now, warm, dry, nor does he try to cast over the shiverings of his penury any glamour other than that which properly belongs to peril overpast...
...Aneyniev came on the stage, holding her baby in her arms and accompanied by her husband, the atmosphere became charged with electrical emotion and the heart of every little Soviet flapper beat a rapid tattoo against her agitated bosom. The baby, "a little doll-like creature," nestling in her mother's arms, was dressed in white, except for a fringe of red roses sewn around her bonnet...
...Czecho-Slovakian Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists, not to be outdone, mustered their vocal chords and poured forth a varied species of banshee wail-but all to no avail. The communists not only carried...
...follows: First call, 5.45 A. M. Reveille, 5.55 A. M. Assembly, 6.00 A. M. First mess, 6.30 A. M. Drill,--7.30, continued until 11.30 A. M. Second mess, 12.15 P. M. Drill, 1.30, continued until 4.30 P. M. Retreat, 5.30 P. M. Third mess, 6.30 P. M. Tattoo, 9.30 P. M. Call to quarters, 9.45 P. M. Taps, 10.00 P. M. Sundays: First call, 7.45 A. M. Assembly, 8.00 A. M. First mess, 8.30 A. M. Second mess...