Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a month, residents of the river Houses near Dunster Street will be shaken from their Sunday morning slumbers with still another church-bell. It will ring from the 180 foot tower of a new Lutheran church, the first in this area, that is under construction at the corner of Winthrop and Dunster Streets...
...from Korea with a strange-seeming calmness-the kind of confused, fearful, half-disbelieving matter-of-factness with which many a man has reacted on learning that he has cancer or tuberculosis. The news of Pearl Harbor, nine years ago to the month, had pealed out like a fire bell. But the numbing facts of the defeat in Korea seeped into the national consciousness slowly out of a jumble of headlines, bulletins and communiqués; days passed before its enormity finally became plain...
...heyday of Dixieland and Prohibition, Chicago Gangster Dion O'Banion, the sparetime florist, used to stuff dollar bills in the bell of Muggsy's horn while he was playing. ("The more he stuffed, the sweeter the music got.") Like many another jazzbo, Muggsy drifted out of jazz into the bigger money. There were eight years with Ted Lewis' band-until "I just got tired of playing When My Baby Smiles at Me." As with many another jazzbo, there were spectacular years with John Barleycorn, until Muggsy wound up "dying" of a perforated ulcer in New Orleans...
...striking the $3 key. With her last ten novels (including The River Road, Came a Cavalier, Dinner at Antoine's), Novelist Keyes has rung up sales of more than 5,000,000 copies, and with her latest she is going to play again the kind of fiscal jingle bells that publishers love to hear at Christmas time. As with previous Keyes bell-ringers, Joy Street is packed with optimism, local atmosphere and an overflowing cast of zestful types...
...Bell report called for tax relation, enforcement of a minimum wage law, and reapportionment of crop shares for tenant farmers...