Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladies) was Missouri ham. The schedule called for a nap after lunch. But a bunch of "40-and-8" Legionnaires were whooping it up on the street around a mock locomotive, and calling for Harry Truman. He mounted the contraption, posed for many pictures. Then someone yelled: "Ring the bell." Harry Truman yanked the rope, clanged the bell hard and long. The crowd was delighted. So was the President...
...Chongno, street of the big bell, the visitors heard a legend: the city's ten-foot bell has an overtone like the wail of a child, since an infant was among the treasures that went into it in 1396. It rang long & loud on liberation night. Part of the Japanese false front of modernism, they learned, was a race track beyond the East Gate. The Japs took their horses away, so it is closed. Near the South Gate, called Nam Tai Moon, the brick railway station was seething with refugees and other travelers. Nobody was northbound-that...
...service stationed nearby, was sure to drop in at the Ken. PeeWee the Great came in one Sunday and stayed for a few weeks. Three or four Pepsi's flavored by the smoky atmosphere were sufficient to send Mr. Russell to dreamland, so the drummer invested in a small bell which gave with resonance when tapped by a drum stick. When it was time for the clarinet sole, the bell was hit, and PeeWee would come out of his trance for the required chorus...
From the Chief. Why had not Governor Dewey used the information? The LIFE story (confirmed by Governor Dewey, G.O.P. Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr. and Elliott V. Bell, a Dewey adviser) said that the information had come to him in a letter from Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall...
There was a pained silence. Then it burst in a hubbub of jeers and cheers. From the chair, Ebby Edwards, bell in hand, energetically clanged down further discussion. Even bristling Comrade Tarasov was gagged by Ebby's veto. Next day he protested by letter against Meany's "insults, lies and calumnies." which would "provoke in the ranks of workers in my country the deepest resentment...