Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bells will be played in conjunction with the Memorial Church choir. Sixty Smith girls, who are singing in a glee club concert the night before, will attend the combined bell-choir concert...
...post-war University man is a far more somber, tense character than his bell-raising predecessor of the twenties or his inflamed, rabble-rousing brother of the New Deal thirties. The contemporary student worries. He worries about the draft, about the world situation, about the lack of values, and most of all, about the dim, dim future...
...merchants, wearing tarbooshes, mingled with battalions of factory workers and street peddlers in skull caps. Copts, Moslems and sheiks marched arm in arm under banners showing the cross and the crescent joined. When spectators began to applaud, the demonstrators shushed them into silence; the sound, reported TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, was a low hum like locusts in a field of grain. Overhead flew banners screaming "Get out, dirty English!" Posters showed British soldiers bayoneted through the throat. When the marchers came within hailing distance of the King's palace, the police swiftly and skillfully split them up, hustled them...
...janitor, compares the hall to Madison Square Garden: a different event each night. "But nothing really happens any more," he complains, "I always find couples petting in the dark corners on square dance nights, and several years ago some drunken Yalies crawled up the tower to steal the bell clapper, but it's nothing like the old days. The place is a little gloomy...
...happened in the middle of Sunday's carillon concert in the Lowell House tower. Gordon Campbell, House tutor, and recently appointed House bell-ringer, was working to a grand climax in one of his Muscovite bell symphonies. Suddenly, one of the chains securing the bells snapped. Campbell went on until another chain snapped. Then a third went, and more after that. A minute later, only three quarters of the 18 bells remained playable...