Word: banging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did President Roosevelt slam the backdoor with a bang which was heard all over Washington and which reverberated for days in the country's press headlines. No names had been named but everyone knew whom the President was talking about. Immediate results...
Quality, Of more permanent interest and much more complicated is the question of liquor quality. Nowhere did the tempest of liquor controversy howl louder than in New York City. Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne, retiring with a bang to set up an analysis bureau of his own and to serve as adviser to Kings Brewery at $15,000 a year, had examined samples of spirits being sold in his jurisdiction, found many brands mislabeled, a few unpotable. He forthwith ordered that straight whiskey be labeled straight whiskey, blends be labeled blends (with percentages of alcohol &whiskey stated on the label...
...trial. The murdered Premier's brother-in-law, Radu Polizu, took the morning train out from Bucharest and burst wild-eyed into the Sinaia stationmaster's office where Assassin Constantinescu was held. He whipped out a small revolver and sent two bullets whistling round the prisoner. Bang! Bang! Neither of them took effect. Radu Polizu was disarmed and hustled out of the room. Another bomb, apparently a spare left over from the evening assassination, burst in the station waiting room wounding a small child who stepped on it by accident. The engineer of the funeral train pulled...
...radio station in Gary, Ind. boomed out one night last week: "Here we are, folks, right on the scene of a gigantic man hunt. The troops are tramping through the field on the trail of the convicts. Listen closely, folks, listen to that deadly patter of lead." Bang! Bang! Bang...
...Bang went the heavy hand of Judge Bünger. He adjourned the Court before dull Marinus van der Lubbe could blurt out anything...