Word: banged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard boys pin all their hopes for the Inter-collegiate Championship on their ability to "bang" any pitcher in the college league. All their energies are bent towards perfecting themselves in that portion of the game. "Doing the net act" is the popular means to this end. They have a net about eight feet high, stretched across a portion of the ball field, and before this the entire nine stand and endeavor to "block" the curved balls that their fellow collegians put in to them. Many men can be found in college, outside the regular team, who have very good...
...would be far pleasanter for instructors and students if the disagreeable noises which emanate from the steam pipes in certain lecture rooms might be remedied. A lecturer begins to speak and all the section to take notes, when, suddenly the steam goes whang, clash, bang. A lull ensues, and all the men huddle around the desk in vain endeavors to catch all that is said. Then the noise begins again, and continues with variations and slight interruptions throughout the hour, and perhaps day, Meanwhile the speaker is annoyed and listeners are distracted. Some remedy ought to be known...
...description. Everyone rises, the Commander calls, "One, two, three, drink." Then, "one, two, three," and the bottoms of the glasses are rattled upon the table producing a most peculiar effect. Again is called, "One, two, " and at "Three" down comes every glass upon the table with a loud "Bang...
...club with which to bang...
...French, the Spanish and the Polish fashions of giddy women." But really the ladies' dress of today is the very opposite of extravagant when compared with that of comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest as the hoop-skirt, and as to those much-abused bangs it has always been a mystery to me what the average male intellect could see so utterly soul-destroying in a very becoming mode of dressing the hair. But you know that a certain minister went so far as to forbid the young ladies of his church wearing the alluring bang...