Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer-preacher, he had saved $156 by the time he was 26, put it into a partnership with a village postmaster and strung a telephone line from Arkansas into neighboring Louisiana. He built it into a four-State line and sold it nine years later to Bell Telephone for $1,500,000. He used the money to organize Arkansas Power & Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus. Meantime he had acquired large interests in the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway and the Kansas City Southern, consolidated the lines. With his close friend Joe Robinson, late Majority Leader of the Senate...
...raid alarm for the private home, estimated price $15, was last week demonstrated by R.C.A. President David Sarnoff to Civilian Defense Director Fiorello LaGuardia. The gadget: a box the size of a portable radio which rings a bell and flashes a light when a radio warning signal is sent...
Jean Knox's formula for womanly morale: "No woman can be happy in her job unless she's well-dressed." Her first plans last week were to redesign the A.T.S.' ungainly bell skirt, do away with Mrs. Bloomer's famed undergarment. She instructed camp tailoresses: "Take an inch up on the shoulder, raise the shoulder line, shorten sleeves, give more wrapover in front. . . ." Busting tradition as wide open as the male generals who tolerated tanks in place of horses, she made rayon panties standard equipment for the A.T.S...
...last lecture the room was crowded with reverent Harvard visitors. Kitty lectured as usual on The Winter's Tale. But he did not end his lecture as usual by marching up the aisle and uttering his last sentence at the door as the bell in Harvard Hall tolled the hour. Instead, he stood on the platform and said quietly, "We'll stop here." A roar of applause rolled over his bowed head. Then Kitty silently waved his students from the aisle and went...
...mechanic's impregnably impertinent charm. He: "I think maybe I'm in love with you." She: "You are?" He: "I think so." A pause and an arch look from Janie: "Well, when'll you know?" They know immediately because each time they kiss they hear a bell peal...