Word: ringing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...life is but a beginning of what we shall do. It was Paul Jones's cry from the deck of the Bonhomme Richard, magnified by steam and a million trumpets of brass--"We've just begun to fight!" Wild, discordant, terrible it was--it is, for it will ring in my ears henceforth--our tocsin! the tocsin of a hundred million people speaking one wrath and one purpose. It was, it is, our answer to the great gun in the woods of St. Gobain, shelling the churches on Good Friday. It stoops to no further mockery of argument or negotiation...
Holbrook Blinn and Blanche Bates have roles that permit of negligible characterization, but their acting is finished and convincing for all that. Lieutenant Gitz Rice, Harrison Brockbank, and Percival Knight, are inserted like vaudeville specialties, but with their songs they ring up a hit apiece...
...Athletic Association has decided to start the tournament at 8.15 in the evening, or even a little later, in order to allow the men with lectures in Military Science time to prepare for their matches. The B. A. A. ring, which is of regulation 24-foot size, will probably be set up on the stage at Brattle Hall for the boxing events...
...unnecessary to say that all night, or a fair part of it, the flute, bassoon will be respectively piped and strummed. 1917 does not celebrate often, but when it does it celebrates a great deal. Curfew shall not ring tonight...
...till it was done. At Liege, when the valiant defenders were rejoicing that the German advance had been stemmed, and her great war-machine broken, she brought up, without warning, without boasting, her terrible siege guns, each drawn by nineteen tractors, and planted them where they could crush the ring of forts. Germany's first note of announcement was the roar of those guns, hearing which Liege knew itself doomed...