Word: banging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Chiang Kaishek was about to shrill a speech of welcome to his "People's Congress" at Nanking; just as the President's northern ally, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, swooped down from Tientsin in his Ford plane, just as the party was going to begin last week, BANG-Revolution in Canton...
TIME, April 6, p. 19 that-"The kookaburra . . . swallows snakes and laughs" would not therefore receive general acceptance in the land where the dawn is signalled Galli-Curci-like with an explosion of ringing notes, amid a quick fire of echoes, the world awakes with a bang; and though abrupt and startling the onset kooka rushes exultingly into a rifle shot pealing crescendo, terminating in high pitched demoniacal mockerj'. S. E. BUTLER...
Queen Marie of Jugoslavia bundled her three young sons into an automobile, took the wheel and went spinning down Prince Michael Street in Belgrade. Out from a sidestreet raced another car, whacked resoundingly into the royal one. BANG! went all the royal tires...
...Proudly bang the sounding presses! Tzing! Boom...
Blow the trumpets, bang the presses! Tantantara! Tzing! Boom...