Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before a surprised Metropolitan audience, Marie Wilkins walked confidently before the footlights to tackle one of the most difficult coloratura parts in opera. Her singing, unlike the occasion and her own bravery, was not extraordinary. She muffed the high E at the end of the famed Bell Song. But as she trilled her way across the finish line the audience applauded to the rafters...
...Green home was a source of wonder to Parisians. Visitors gaped at the huge sofas and tables imported from Savannah, were shocked on ringing the bell to hear Mrs. Green's high voice crying "If it's another bill I won't pay it!" At home, Father Green wore a Turkish fez; outside, a silk top hat. Impressed by Bible stories, young Julian tried unsuccessfully to offer up the topper as a burnt sacrifice, using the sewing machine as an altar. Later he managed to sit on the hat in church. "My father . . . uttered a low groan...
...Archbishop of Canterbury had recommended that the nation listen with "fresh resolve and renewed prayer for ... our Allies and the cause we serve." Bell-ringing teams, dispersed by war, had reassembled and practiced frantically with muffled clappers...
Because he was fed up with coastwise tankers after two years, Seaman Federick Herman of Fayetteville, N.Y. had signed on for the Atlantic run. His thought that Sunday morning, when the alarm bell rang, was: "Here I am on a Liberty ship jammed to the gunwales with Russian supplies in the biggest convoy the British have tried to punch through. So the Germans will put on their biggest show." He ran on deck...
...undefeated House football teams continued their winning streaks yesterday as the Leverett Bunnies beat Adams, '41 champions, 7-0, and the Winthrop eleven took the Lowell Bell-boys...