Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bell rang. In a great hall of the Kremlin the twelfth session of the Supreme Soviet formally opened. Premier Joseph Stalin, wearing a fawn-colored Red Army jacket and his Marshal's diamond, sat in the last row of benches. The hall was thick with Red Army...
...circle round the gardens from tree to tree and back to the summer house, a distance of 165 yards. ... He then walked up a narrow path, unlocked the garden gate with his key, walked across the road ... a total distance of 300 yards. At 7:30 he rang the bell . . . and said quite clearly to [his landlady], 'I must go to the bathroom.' He was helped off with his overcoat and assisted to the bathroom. ... He died three hours later...
...Bell for Adano (20th Century-Fox) has a crack in it. Thanks to Hollywood's passionate desire to please practically everybody, this third telling of John Hersey's story fails to achieve the honest anger of the novel. It also lacks the resourcefulness and verisimilitude of the play...
Last week Bell Bottom Trousers, revived as a song hit of World War II, placed first in U.S. sheet-music sales and fourth in radio performances. But the lyrics had been thoroughly scrubbed up. Veteran fathers, momentarily alarmed by the melody the bobby-soxers were singing, were quickly reassured. Songwriter Moe Jaffe's modernized maid, as coolly respectable as a Junior League Nurses' Aide, has the situation well in hand; her sailor is as wholesome as an Eagle Scout...
...Never Left Home, with around a million and a half sales each. Anthony Adverse and Edith M. Hull's The Sheik have each sold some 1,190,000 copies. Quo Vadis and the nostalgic travelogue Our Hearts Were Young and Gay also run neck & neck. And Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills is tied at 1,200,000 with H. G. Wells's Outline of History...