Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dublin's Lower O'Connell Street there lived a highbrow little monthly called the Bell. Between its covers, budding young Irish writers appeared arm in arm with such full-blown names as George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey and Liam O'Flaherty. The big names worked for small pay; they felt it a duty to support Eire's only literary magazine...
Hunted Past. How he fared he told in the final issue of the Bell. "Having been in the U.S. before, I took it the visa would be readily forthcoming . . . I am preeminently the aging, kindly gentleman that should pass in & out of any county unnoticed." Actually, he was not that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America...
Edward J. Bell, 3rd, Pendleton...
...takeoff, the sound of roaring engines is heard, coughing a little at first with startling realism. The cabin vibrates convincingly. The monotonous beat of the guiding radio beam throbs in the pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing...
Rail Juggler Robert R. Young, whose fond, bright dream was to control the New York Central, got a rude awakening last week. In a ruling as abrupt as the jangling of a fire bell, the Interstate Commerce Commission flatly refused to let Young and Chesapeake & Ohio President Robert J. Bowman 1) sit on Central's board, or 2) vote C. & O.'s 400,000 shares in Central which would give Young working control...