Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Russia in 1923, after three years in & out of Bolshevik prisons. Slim, midwestish, white-haired William E. Bohn, onetime teacher and Socialist lecturer, writes most of the editorials and a chatty, personalized column-"so there'll be something the working man can understand." Daniel Bell, 24, who was a working Socialist on Manhattan's lower East Side at 13, is an associate editor. Another is tall, grey, ex-Communist Listen Oak, who was "disillusioned" by a trip to Russia and by experiences with Communists while helping the Loyalists in Spain...
Canadian immigration authorities are checking on the records of "bird dogs," "bell cows" and "reloaders" who may have entered the Dominion from the U.S. Out in British Columbia, the Attorney General is investigating "dynamiters" and "foxes...
...slickers who follow the trade have developed a lingo all their own. One who points the game is a bird dog. The prospect is a sucker or a mooch. An advance man who attracts the mooch is a bell cow. The man who makes the sale is a loader. The smoothie who takes the sucker a second time is the reloader. Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone. An argument for a difficult prospect is the Russian Injection...
...Bermuda, in the sunny days before the war, a motorcar was a monstrosity. The soothing clop-clop of patient horses on the bright, white coral roads and the occasional cling of a cyclist's bell took the place of whining tires and peremptory blares. Black coachmen were unfailingly polite and the tranquil roads were a pleasure to walk. Five years ago a Governor General resigned in a huff because the Colonial Assembly would not let him have a car for personal use. Exceptions to the rigid ban: fire engines, ambulances, garbage trucks...
...Paul Lukas led the men. Other statuettes: 1) best film of 1943, Casablanca; 2) best director, Casablanca's Michael Curtiz; 3) best supporting actor, Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier; 4) best supporting actress, Greek-born Katina Paxinou-for her fire-&-ice Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls...