Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other royal guests included King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI. The house was so vast that, the story goes, guests were given packets of wafers to strew along the corridors showing the way back to their rooms. A guest once rang the servant's bell on Saturday; it was Monday before his man appeared. During one Doncaster race week, a butler walked 54 miles in four days, merely attending his household duties...
Interesting to observe: The expressions on 250 happy little faces as the amphib list was announced . . . Most surprised listeners: Bobys, Scarborough, Olcezak . . . Most pleased Bell, Falk, Hughes...
...WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou ; TIME...
Ralph 124C 41+ and Immortality. Born in Luxembourg, Hugo took an electric bell apart at the age of six. At 13 he was allowed to install a telephone system in a Luxembourg convent (he says he got a special dispensation to enter it from Pope Leo XIII). At 22, having moved to Manhattan, he built one of the first amateur wireless transmitters with which he could ring a bell a quarter of a mile away. But then Hugo's imagination began outstripping his technical resources...
Easily the top man on the bill was our man Bell, current A-Section Leader. Bell, a New York attorney, demonstrated a mastery of the ad lib racket with a couple of take-offs. Other feature performers included the inimitable Witt, "Orson" Wells, "Red" Pace, Overson, Briggs, Baker, Barker, Bridgeman, and Gress on the blew-harp...