Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James R. Bell...
...under Father Stock a prisoner must pass a simple screening: prove that he was a seminarian before he was a soldier. A single interview suffices. Seminarians are excused from regular P.W. labor in the fields, live in separate quarters. But their regimen is strict. Rising at a 6 a.m. bell, they pray and meditate until mass at 6:45, held in a plain, wooden structure decorated with murals by their...
...American is probably the main reason why Panassie has failed to get a really accurate view of the jazz picture. At the time he was formulating his conception of it, Americans were busy fawning upon any and every eminent European classical musician obtainable. But in his native Europe the bell-shaped opera sopranos, weirdly posturing conductors et al were, comparatively speaking, the honorless prophets, while the imported hot records from the New World and the American jam bands got the vivas, saluts, and heils. The European Parlophone company, with branches in almost every major country on the continent, still carries...
...Bell's Mill, four miles west of Gainesville, Ga., a car sped out of the black night and thudded sickeningly into the bridge. Four were killed. In Manhattan, a coupe skidded wildly across rainswept Third Avenue and bashed into a steel El pillar. Two were killed...
...Bell-Ringer. One of the best city editors in the business, Reutlinger has clung to his spot for a dozen years, while a dozen managing editors have come & gone. (His standard, deadpan approach to a new Hearst-appointed managing editor: "If you don't want me to work for you, just let me know and I'll make other arrangements." He never has to.) Hearst accountants may wince at the long-distance tolls he runs up, but he rings up scoops that way. By casual telephone calls, he got beats on the Dionne quintuplets' birth (it came...