Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bell-Ringers for Waitresses. In Germany, spring and anxiety merged in the dread of what the Communists might do on Whitsuntide (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...customers nightly. Last week, each leaning on an attendant and trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume, two of Tokyo's leading "waitresses" led a regiment of lantern-bearers, bell-ringers, apprentice prostitutes and child attendants through the ancient three-hour procession. "We're certainly not trying to revive interest in prostitution," explained a spokesman for Tokyo's procurers' association, "but we felt that since peace had come back and spring is here, we'd like...
...true variation of the secret ballot. Now, hard rubber balls are used; though they drop noiselessly, rumor has spread among Yugoslavs that they fall with a distinct "plop!", and that anyone who does not choose the Titoist list proclaims himself as publicly as a medieval leper with a bell...
...Great God on My Head Phumiphon Adundet,* the Power Coming from the Strength of the Earth, at long last stepped ashore from the flagship Sri Ayuthia onto Siamese soil, every temple bell in the land rang out a greeting...
...struggling writers. He negotiated with Tom Wolfe's dunning creditors while Wolfe was in Europe, he gentled Sherwood Anderson when Anderson was on his last literary legs, and he reassured a nervous Hemingway who hovered over his shoulder as Perkins read the last third of For Whom the Bell Tolls...