Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the village of Bazouges-du-Désert, in Brittany, the apples grow big and sweet, and the Calvados (apple brandy) is a potable that is more in demand than the local water. In the town one morning last week the biggest bell in the church tower began to peal. It was a familiar but urgent tocsin of alarm. Government tax collectors had been sighted. The revenuers were looking for illegal Calvados and unlicensed stills...
...Stairs broke down once 14 years ago," Jimmy relates. "But they're O.K. now." One fight above the partly open area of the bell tower stands the widow's walk, strewn with dead pigeons...
...Family. In Des Moines, Bertha Elizabeth Simmons, asked if she was ready to testify against George James Bell, accused of "embezzling and . . . appropriating" her watch, told the court: "No, your Honor . . . George and I were married last night...
...Daily News, editor of Harper's Bazaar, and editor-in-chief of a string of Butterick Publishing Co. magazines-and he never quite got over it. Now, says Sell, "every time I go through a magazine I'm like an old fire horse. When I hear the bell, and see the smoke and flame, it always gets me up." Last week the 59-year-old fire horse went back into harness as editor of slick, sophisticated Town & Country...
...three Confederate-loving buckaroos who keep things moving are Joel McCrea, Zachary Scott and Douglas Kennedy, owners of the Three Bell Ranch. The complicated action is sped up-as well as made more complicated-by cattle-rustling Victor Jory who, working as a Union Army guerrilla fighter, steals their cattle, burns down their ranch, and starts cutting in on their gunrunning racket...