Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived there until one day in 1941 when she stepped out to drown herself in the River Ouse. Her father's first wife was Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner...
...generals, often gives them a useful new idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included everything from handling administrative details of the Army training program to moving Japanese off the West Coast. Everyone who knows himp gives him top marks...
...could do it, dynamic Henry Kaiser was the kind of man. Such a supporter was Grover C. Loening, pioneer airman, adviser to WPB's air-cargo committee. He favored the plan 100%. His only proviso: Kaiser must not cut into combat-plane production. Kaiser-boosters passed around a Bell Aircraft Co. cartoon which seemed to them very apropos...
...sixth place Winthrop baseball team scored an upset Friday afternoon when they defeated the first place Bell-boys 6 to 2 and put Lowell into a three-way tie for first with Leverett and Adams...
...appeal by Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania, over 40 stations, asking Pennsylvanians not to make telephone calls unless absolutely necessary...