Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of city gardeners, this was the best time of year. They sent the children to bed early, switched off the radio, plugged the telephone bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with trembling fingers, drank in the intoxicating colors of beet and carrot, rolled the poetry over on their tongues. While winter winds whistled outside, they luxuriated in a gentle world where all tomatoes grow to unblemished perfection, where eight-inch cucumbers are midgets, where every brussels sprout is a sonnet and bugs are never seen...
Said the Louisville Courier-Journal's former Washington correspondent Ulric Bell (now with OWI): "We thought John definitely anti-British. . . ." Kenneth Crawford, Washington reporter for PM, said he had concluded from remarks he had heard O'Donnell make that O'Donnell thought Hitler's oppression of the Jews justified...
...spies' council of war in the salon showroom, where Hope tries to conceal himself by posing as a clothes dummy on a bicycle. His mugging in this perilous situation, marked by vain efforts to regain a dropped slipper and at the same time keep the treacherous bicycle bell quiet, makes a notable addition to the library of Hope classics in hilarity...
...Singing bell-bottom skirts and coats of Navy Blue ..." No one knows quite what bell-bottom skirts would be like, but it's very definite that they're the new fashion note in Cambridge today, as 75 WAVES arrive for Supply Corps training at Radcliffe...
...prewar Harvard was like", he has been photographed waiting outside the Freshman Dean's Office to "see about the examination he had flunked," carrying University chairs to his room in Lowell House at the beginning of his Sophomore year, sleeping in the House library, and drinking tea with the Bell-boy's Housemaster, Elliot Perkins...