Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfect team -the union of a lively and energetic president with a lively and imaginative campus. Like any new broom, Wagner made a few mistakes. Some professors took a dim view of his enthusiasm for visual aids, which he had developed as No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. ("After all," complained one professor, "he did make that startling prediction that only 5% of the people would be reading books in 50 years"). Some students resented his attempts to tighten up Rollins' traditionally free & easy ways...
Residents of Kirkland House, many of whom had undoubtedly had rather heavy nights the night before, were rudely and untimely awakened at eight-thirty Sunday morning by the clamorous and insistent tolling of the Lutheran church bell up the street...
This is plainly the worst bell in the area. The Memorial Church bell, strident though it may be, maintains decent hours on Sunday and contains itself until eleven o'clock. St. Paul's Church, directly across from Adams House, is regular enough to be absorbed easily into the semi-conscious, stuporous mind...
Said Magistrate Oliver Bell at a magistrates' convention at Northampton: the Ministry's Enforcement Officer "has in his office what I think is called a smashing blonde. He sends her out with a ration book to see what she can get. I understand from butchers it is extremely hard to cut fillet steak to the exact requirement. I think it is unfair to send this good-looking girl round the shops to catch them out for twopence halfpenny...
...Bell Syndicate's Drew Pearson, introduced, in recognition of his libel docket, as "the only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...