Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day a Negro war worker, whose brother is in the Army, walked into Philadelphia's famed Independence Hall and hurled a one-pound paper weight at the Liberty Bell. As the deep note resounded he yelled: "Liberty Bell, oh Liberty Bell -liberty, that's a lot of bunk!" Police led him off to a hospital to have his head examined...
Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...
Seventeen bells make up a real Russian Zvon sot. Lowell House has only 16, one of them having been found to be more out of key than the others. The family bell, fourth largest in the set, now signals the end of classes at the Business School. The 16 at Lowell range in size from a 13-ton brute to a pint-sized gremlin of 22 pounds...
Last week Reviewer Bell's output was temporarily curtailed. With a constitutional weakness in his legs, he fell in 1936, broke his left leg. Fortnight ago, he fell again, broke the other...
...also did the booknotes for the Nation. When Irita Van Doren became editor of the Herald Tribune's book section (1926), she got Bell to do its brief reviews. He has been doing them ever since. In one summer-fiction number of the supplement he guided readers to 65 examples of hammock reading, wrote nine reviews and a long article summarizing the year's light fiction-almost half the supplement...