Word: banging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music Committee of the City Art Commission. An amateur violinist, he organized a municipal band 20 years ago, a municipal chorus in 1924, was responsible for a series of municipal "pop'' concerts given every season since 1922 by the Symphony. Supervisor Hayden also finds time to run bang-up restaurants on ferries plying San Francisco...
...work Critic Elliot Paul wrote: "She has no formula. Each painting is a separate problem, and her palette is rich and varied enough to deal with it freshly." And even conservative, bang-haired Royal Cortissoz spoke largely of her promise...
...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...
...fact that we now ask for arms equality with a little louder voice," twittered the Chancellor nervously, "does not mean that we propose to draw the sabre and bang it on the table...
...Matt Williams, U. S. bricklayer in his middle 30's; his story, told straight from the side of his mouth, is typical of hundreds of thousands but he tells it so freshly that it does not seem like an old tale. He starts in with a bang that never fades out to a whimper...