Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...
...Louis and his wife Maria did not forget Bisaccia, and they did not forget that the bell of Bisaccia would not ring: long before, it had split during an earthquake, and no one had bothered...
After World War I, another Bisaccia emigrant to the U.S., Giuseppe Sullo, had built a new church tower for the town at a cost of $12,000, expecting that this would encourage Bisaccia to recast the bell. (It didn't.) After World War II, Louis decided to recast the bell in honor of his son Major Raymond Salzarulo, who was killed at Midway. Louis sent $500 to Don Guerrizzo, the parish priest...
Last week, Bisaccesi hung their brightest bedquilts like flags on the window sills, and went down to hear the Archbishop of Conza bless the bright, new-shining bell. On hand, mopping his forehead with a handkerchief of many colors, sat Louis Salzarulo of Richmond Ind. "Isn't it wonderful of old Luigi," said one villager, "to have the money to have the bell mended...
Explained anti-union L. Nelson Bell of Montreat: "Most of us went into the meeting armed with sawed-off shotguns and brass knucks. But after meeting in three harmonious sessions for 11½ hours, we came to a unanimous decision. All 39 members were on their knees praying for 25 minutes . . . We feel that God's Holy Spirit led us." The assembly, moved to a man, sang the Doxology and unanimously accepted the committee's report...