Word: banging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a terrific bang, which did not so much alarm as it startled and amused the Empire, the new United Empire Party, founded less than a month ago (TIME, March 3), burst last week into its constituent atoms...
...there was a hero in the smoke produced by last week's Beavermere bang, it was Stanley Baldwin, stodgy leader of the Conservative Par.ty, which is now "His Majesty's Loyal Opposition," a rich man without ideas who has been twice Prime Minister, a man reviled as a blithering, blathering ass less than ten days ago by the then united Beaverbrook and Rothermere press...
...monthly stage entertainments its nights are dull and dreary. Please put our Alma right with your readers. And please say, if you will, that Edward Everett Horton put the sketch on and himself appeared in it just to help Alma come back and that she came back with a bang and to a cheering audience...
Kitty Marion's father, a harsh German (Westphalian), would bang her childish head with the knob of his long German pipe, to show her he was family boss. When she was 15, a stocky red-headed youngster, she ran away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because...
...Bang!" and again "Bang!" went the revolver, but agile Teacher Karlovci had slipped from his chair under his desk in time to escape assassination...