Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone is a Jekyll and Hyde invention, a curse and plague as often as it is a convenience. We list our present lack of a telephone as our greatest luxury. We no longer must drop whatever we are doing, day or night, and run to answer that raucous bell. I now have leisure to pursue a hobby, enjoy good music, read a book or converse with my wife. We are not dragged off against our will to meetings. We no longer must put up with the leechlike telephone salesmen and solicitors. Meanwhile, our health is better as we have eliminated...
...your article on the telephone, you mention "more than 600 patent lawsuits" in which Bell was involved before his patents expired. May I call to your attention one particular lawsuit, that of Antonio Meucci, 1808-1889, a native of Florence, Italy, who claimed the invention of the telephone...
Wonderful Town's book, concerning the adventures of two ambitious midwestern sisters in naughty old Greenwich Village, lacks both continuity and imagination. A less skillful and enthusiastic production might have turned the play into a series of entertaining but isolated revues. Instead, Louise Bell and Susie Colt's direction has not only developed the contrast between the two sisters, it has managed to keep some continuity in the action...
...question was: How did the Detroit puzzle-breaking ring get advance solutions? Suspicions naturally focused on the sources, i.e., the distributing syndicates-principally Bell Syndicate, General Features and Superior Features Syndicate -which sell puzzle contests to newspapers. In New York. Andre F. L'Eveque, who runs Superior Features, announced that he had found and plugged a leak and had given full details to the FBI. The other syndicates insisted that the precautions they take against leaks are foolproof. But what happened in Portland presented undeniable evidence that more than a leak at Superior was involved, since another syndicate...
...March 4 Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The engaging musical variety show bubbles on, this time with Soprano Eileen Farrell, Violinist Isaac Stern, the Joe Bushkin Quartet, Ann Blyth and Howard Keel...