Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true it was, and gradually the realization settled on Britain's capital. Silence, broken only by the subdued march of traffic and the dismal tolling of church bells, took over. Union Jacks fluttered to half-staff. Shops and factories all over the nation closed down. The BBC canceled all remaining programs after its initial bulletin. Cinemas and theaters called off their shows. The stock market closed for the day. At Lloyd's, the famed Lutine Bell, historic herald of momentous news, clanged once, and all business ceased. Even London's famous burlesque house, Windmill Theatre, which boasts...
...boomed from Tower Hill, and from the gun turrets of British warships on most of the seven seas. In Melbourne, Australia, a group of bellringers in St. Paul's Cathedral heard the news just as they were practicing a merry peal of welcome to Elizabeth and Philip; the bell-ringers set their bells tolling mournfully instead...
Pleas & Warnings. As he mounted the rostrum and waited for the jingle of the little long-handled silver bell which starts debate, 76-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer looked tired. For months he and the allies had been negotiating a "contract," a preliminary peace treaty, to replace the occupation. He was near the end of his bargaining, he said, and at the stage where he needed a parliamentary majority behind...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame isn't in Technicolor, but with Charles Laughton carrying the title role as a hideously deformed bell-ringer, this picture doesn't even need a sound-track...
Besides having to face the greater fees, the Wellesley girl will have to care for her own room, do more "waiting on" and bell duty, and supply her own linen. Miss Clapp said that these economics are necessary in order to prevent still another rise...