Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announce the session's last roll-call vote in the House, Speaker Martin pounded a shattering, bell-ringing gavel, and the House burst into roars of laughter. Then at 7:38 Friday evening, page boys who gathered around the Speaker's dais threw paper into the air as Martin rapped the House into adjournment until next January...
...Marc Boegner of France read the First Lesson (Isaiah 53) in French. Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, read the Second Lesson (Philippians 2:1-11) in Greek. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway led the recitation of the Apostles' Creed in German. The Rt. Rev. G.K.A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester, offered the prayers in English...
...graduate of Harvard Law School, but does not know many other graduates because he went through the famed school "backwards." Ervin explained that he was admitted to the North Carolina bar before he decided to go to Harvard. He was in love with a North Carolina girl named Margaret Bell and was afraid a long absence might ruin his romance, so he elected to take only the third-year course. He finished the course, found that Margaret was still true, and began the second-year course. Another check with his sweetheart gave him courage to take the first year...
Sometimes native table rules add a certain fillip to the art of dining. When he was in the Middle East, says Jim Bell, he found that whole roasted sheep eaten Bedouin style (i.e., with hands only) is guaranteed to satisfy the hungriest man alive. The only problem is one of etiquette: the guest of honor is supposed to eat the sheep's eyeballs. Keith Wheeler, now on Bell's former beat, likes an Iranian dish of young lamb and rice called tchelo kebab, "which Iran should have nationalized instead...
...Specially constructed with its bell tilted upward at a 45-degree angle. Dizzy discovered the new twist after a party accident bent his horn. When he played it, he was amazed: "For the first time I heard myself play...