Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuffed with romantic dreams of knightly prowess, passionately devoted to guns, swords and murder stories, young Doyle entered Edinburgh University as a medical student in 1876. Here, he fell under the spell of the man without whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell's favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand...
Young Arthur never forgot what Dr. Bell simply called the "trained eye." Meanwhile, he became a demon boxer, wrestler, rugby player. Before he got his medical degree he shipped on an Arctic whaler as naval surgeon, began the voyage by hanging a mouse on the steward's eye, ended it covered with snow and blood after charging a herd of seals with a poleax. "I just feel as if I could go anywhere, and do anything," he told his admiring mother...
...second decisive event came when he decided to invent, for use in short stories, a scientific method of crime detection based on the deduction-by-observation habits of Professor Bell. He sketched out a short novel called A Tangled Skein, involving a detective named Sherrinford Holmes and a narrator named Ormond Sacker. Finally, because it sounded better, he changed Sherrinford to Sherlock, and Ormond Sacker to the simpler name of Dr. John Watson. He changed the story's title to A Study in Scarlet. Publishers Ward, Locke & Co. bought it outright (for ?25) and published it in their Christmas...
...foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with the names of such people as New York's Bishop Manning and Chicago's Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell...
...points on the New York Stock Exchange to 147¾, a new low for 1948-49, fell still lower next day to the lowest point in five years. A.T. & T.'s President Leroy A. Wilson seemed less shaken. Said he: "Western Electric has been a part of the Bell System for over 65 years ... I am sure that when all the facts are known, the existing arrangement will be found to be in the public interest...