Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOST of our literary critics seem to agree that "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is Ernest Heminway's greatest book, greater even than "A farewell to Arms." In harrowing days like these we live in, it is interesting to see just what kind of book it is that can catch men's attention, and light up for an instant the shadows that lie behind the day-by-day kaleidoscope of draft numbers, campaign speeches, and invasions...
...Whom the Bell Tolls" is, incidentally, a thrilling story--Gary Cooper will fit well into the role of Robert Jordan. The dialogue is surprisingly effective, translated almost literally, as it is, from the Spanish. The picture of war-wracked Spain has an authentic air--there are heroes, villains, and likewise bunglers on both sides. Several brilliant "set pieces" dot the pages of the book: an unbearably bloody and terrifying description of the start of the Revolution in a small village, a nauseous discourse on the "smell of death," and three exciting love episodes. But it is the spiritually tortured character...
...onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would be given a speech to write. When he had sweated his brains out over it, two or three colleagues rewrote it completely...
...comely young headmistress, Miss Ruutz-Rees used to drive her late-staying admirers in a horse and buggy to the railroad station in Meriden, Conn., taking along a pistol for the return trip. Never married, she adopted a son, Roland, and a daughter, known to Rosemarians as Bonnie Bell (now Mrs. Jacobus A. J. Van der Bunt Jr.). Famed is her long line of pet black poodles, from Mouf I to Mopsa. Famed also are her activities as a suffragette, as a women's leader in the Council of National Defense in World War I, as a member...
...neutral but palpitant Sweden, engineers of Ericsson Telephone Co. devised an air-raid alarm which works like a doorbell. The bell can be plugged into an ordinary current outlet in the house. If raiders come, the power plant slightly steps up the voltage in the line, rings the alarm bell in all houses which have...