Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for the low, seven bob price of tickets and the high, Edwardian bob of loitering Teddy Boys, the American theatregoer might mistake London's Piccadilly for a circular Broadway. The King and I, Bell, Book and Candle, Kismet, and Tea House of the August Moon are all current favorites. Such dubious U.S. attractions as The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker and Johnnie Ray have Britons queueing up patiently for each performance. And adapted American productions like My Three Angels and Ondine have found a home here also...
John W. Lonsdale, Jr. '57, of Lowell Houses and New York City, and Charles S. Cheston, Jr. '56, of Lowell and Blue Bell, Pa., were taken by police to Fordham Hospital, Lonsdale, suffering from bruises, was released Saturday; Cheston's condition was described as "serious, but not critical," by a hospital official...
...Many of the novels (A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls) and short stories (The Killers, The Snows of Kilimanjaro) of Nobel Prizewinner Ernest Hemingway have long since been translated to the screen, but 20th Century-Fox announced that Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), will finally get a movie treatment with Howard Hawks directing...
...snatchers-it featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease for the widespread terror of being accidentally buried alive. In such devices the victim was provided with a bell rope a speaking tube, an air vent or even a ladder...
...Joseph Bell of Edinburgh, the original Sherlock Holmes. As a medical student, Author Conan Doyle listened in awe as the astonishing Dr. Bell "would sit in his receiving room, with a face like a red Indian, and diagnose people as they came in before they even opened their mouths." Deduction, based on observation of trifles, was Bell's method. "Most men," he said drily, "have ... a head, two arms, a nose, a mouth." But only the weaver has a weaver's tooth (jagged from biting threads), only a peasant woman smoking a short-stemmed clay pipe...