Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intermission, the young man and his girl got caught in the crush on the way upstairs to the bar-he had never seen so many jewels and furs in his life-and only just managed to get Scotch-and-soda (at $1.00 each) before the bell summoned them back for the second act of Barber of Seville. The setting was a knockout, bright and modern-looking, and the heroine-this time it was pretty Roberta Peters-sang a tricky song he had often heard on the radio, called Una Voce Poco Fa. After that there was a lot of fine...
...retired, sulking, to his ivory tower in Harrisburg. Meanwhile, the P.M.A. was not what it used to be; Joe Grundy, 91, had retired after half a century of politics, and his successor, G. Mason Owlett, did not have the master's touch. When Owlett, the Blue Bell Boys and the other...
...rocks, growing louder and louder until a big one landed with a thunderous roar, and the listener could almost see the flying spume and the screeching seagulls. Then, evoking a passage into a quiet bay, little waves lapped with a feathery sound on a soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with the gorgeous sound of the Queen Mary's deep bass whistle, and ending with the horrid harrumph of the West Quoddy Head horn...
...opening bell on the day after election, brokers swarmed around the 18 trading posts of the New York Stock Exchange, their pockets stuffed with buy orders. As big blocks of stock changed hands, prices surged ahead throughout the list. U.S. Steel jumped 2⅜ to 58⅞; General Motors racked up a gain of 2½ to close at 92½. Such stocks as Bethlehem and Westinghouse, which had sold ex-dividend only the day before, made up the amount of the dividends and more...
...fast buck had a chance of getting away. Among other things, Mammy was a madame who lavishly entertained in her elegant house (it cost $10 for a caller even to be considered for admission). Mammy's partner in many financial ventures was the fabulous Thom as Frederick Bell, who arrived in the West penniless and rose to the throne of Quicksilver King. In the end, when Mammy and Bell quarreled, she pushed him over a staircase railing to his death (the murder was never proved against Mammy before she died in 1904 at the age of 87). Author Holdredge...