Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reykjavik's three dance halls, the girls would consent to dance with them, but would not be escorted home by them. If a girl were in discreet enough to accept an Englishman, she would have all her hair shaved off, like Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Under the pavement of bomb-battered St. Paul's Cathedral this week, the skull & bones of ironic John Donne might have leaned backward with a lipless grin. After some 300 years, Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (whose title and magnificent motto are by John Donne), had made Preacher-Poet Donne a bestseller. U. S. customers could not buy a volume of Donne's works for love or money...
...tongued announcers' plugging tunes obviously whipped up in an awful hurry for one purpose: to beat a deadline. Band leaders, whose themes songs are their musical John Hancock, are forced to change those themes for tunes which scarcely identify them or their music. Of course, we hear an occasional bell-ringer like There I Go, but that's not enough, not by a long shot...
Most of the top-ranking American players have had work done at the shop at some time or other. Bill Tilden, Vinnic Richards, and Little Bill Johnston used to drop in at Harry Cowles' when they were playing at Longwood. George Lott and Berkeley Bell still send their racquets up here for restringing. And the shop annually receives its order from an old Harvardian, now living in Singapore. All in all, upwards of 75,000 stringing jobs have been turned out at 67a Mt. Auburn Street in the past sixteen years...
...Conway, N. H. a church bell started an eerie tolling and in North Conway a house caught fire. In Salem, Mass, a rare Japanese tile gargoyle in the Peabody Museum fell and shattered. In Albany, N. Y. a huge Christmas tree in the State Office Building toppled. In Portland, Me. a butterfly came out of its cocoon, flew around. In Chicopee Falls, Mass, a water main cracked. In Central Falls, R. I. instruments and bottles in the glass cases of an operating room rattled while surgeons were operating. In Nashua, N. H. a church's stained-glass windows were...