Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Post manager at Arctic Bay for the past three years has been chubby (over 200 lbs.), good-natured bachelor James Bell, who lives in one of the old-style Hudson's Bay houses: two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, office. Nearby are a store, warehouse, fuel sheds and a "blubber shed," where dog teams eat company walrus meat; a meteorological station built by the U.S. Army but now manned by four Canadians. In the area are about 150 Eskimos; 25 miles to the south is an Anglican missionary...
...Bell's stock list for the Nascopie this year, radioed out of the north two months ago, occupies four closely typed long sheets. Items: tinted sun goggles, dolls, Florida water, girls' ski slacks, sewing machines, jew's-harps, thousands of pounds of plug tobacco, spruce poles for spear handles, blubber lamps...
...clerk will soon get into the routine of helping with breakfast (canned grapefruit juice, canned butter, toast made from bread which Bell baked himself, canned bacon, powdered eggs and coffee) and cleaning up afterwards; of replenishing the coal supply and providing water from blocks of lake ice; of serving Eskimos who mush in from trapping posts by komatik (dog sled...
Dean Blanding is a tall, gaunt, plain-drawling person who has come a long way from the small farm she was born on near Lexington, Ky. In her early teens, she got $10 a month for yanking on the bell ropes of the local Episcopal church. She often rode with her uncle, a horse-&-buggy doctor, as he made his rounds, and her earliest ambition was to be a doctor herself. But she settled to a more modest ambition when her father died while she was in high school; she borrowed money and enrolled at the New Haven, Conn. Normal...
Ernie Bevin had been spoiling for this fight for 20 years. In the House of Commons canteen he gulped a cup of hot coffee and an unbuttered bun. Then he slumped down on his front bench to wait for the bell...