Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Leroux and four other gendarmes drove to Bazouges, where Leroux and his sergeant climbed up the church bell tower. There they found a bicycle repairman and a carriagemaker smoking their pipes and swinging the clapper against the big bell...
...question of a telephone call," said the bicycle man blandly. "I had thought we might need a lawyer and hoped that if someone heard the bell ringing he would call a lawyer...
...district had gathered to defy the revenuers. The prisoners were put into one of the police cars, which cruised about until two harassed men in city clothes stepped from a doorway. "We had hardly begun asking around about alcohol," said one of the revenuers, "when the bell sounded." In the end the revenuers got nothing and the bell-ringing prisoners were freed, after a long and fatherly lecture from Lieut. Leroux...
...Salvaged from a frigate which sank off the Dutch coast in 1799 with ?1,000,000 in gold aboard, ruining many underwriters. The bell hangs over Lloyd's center rostrum, is rung by a "waiter" in scarlet and gold. One stroke means disaster at sea; two mean good news...
...every British schoolboy knows, famed Lloyd's of London began 260 years ago in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, a gathering place of City insurance men. It grew into the world's most potent body of insurance underwriters, still heralds ship disasters by tolling its doleful Lutine Bell,* and through its 2,500 members writes policies on everything from the Queen Elizabeth to Betty Grable's legs...