Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BELL Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...isolated cottage, Monk's House, near the village of Rodmell, Sussex. There was plenty of action, with airplanes frequently roaring overhead, dropping incendiaries. Virginia helped to give first aid. When a bomb demolished her London home, destroying valuable murals by Duncan Grant and her sister, Vanessa Bell (wife of Art Critic Clive Bell), she observed: "Every beautiful thing will soon be destroyed...
...came of a professional writing clan. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She was related to Thackeray and such scholarly dynasties as the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys. James Russell Lowell was her godfather. She married into the Bloomsbury group, which included Critic Bell, Novelist E. M. Forster, Biographer Lytton Strachey, Economist John Maynard Keynes...
Typical of this practice is statement in Associated Press today of Rear Admiral Russell Willson, of Naval Academy, in trying to place blame upon Director William Bingham of Harvard. A decade ago when William Bell was lineman for Ohio State, Navy pulled wires and persuaded Ohio State to send Bell, star first-string player, to scout another team the day of the Navy game. Navy has also ducked Negro members of swimming teams from Northern colleges...
Elected Vice-Presidents of the Alumni Association, to serve one year, were Laird Bell '04, of Chicago; Franklin E. Parker Jr. '18, of New York; and Henry W. Clark '23, of Easton...