Word: belling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other "Ben" alarm clocks are all namesakes of the 13½-ton bell in the clock tower of Britain's Houses of Parliament. The big bell was named "Ben" after Sir Benjamin Hall, in 1856 London's Commissioner of Works. Of all clock bells in the Empire none are more storied, more beloved. Therefore last week it seemed a splendid idea to take a movietone of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin listening, in his garden to "Big Ben" clang noon over the housetops...
Interrupted at this point by the startling din of an electric bell under the table, Sir James picked up two empty wine glasses, held them like the receiver and transmitter of a telephone, and spoke with concentrated whimsy thus...
...poles were erected in sockets on the table and a bell suspended from them by silken cords. At a word of admonition the bell rang...
...Singleton, England, the school bell rang for recess. The fat boy, aged six, was jammed in his desk, could not rise. When the village carpenter had sawed the desk off him, recess was almost gone...
Died. Arthur Morgan Smith, of Cleveland, secretary-treasurer of Gas Machinery Co.; in Manhattan. Early one morning Mr. Smith left a party in Manhattan's Hotel Marguery with Oilman Samuel E. Bell of Baltimore and Mrs. Robert L. Brown, wife of a Kentucky bond salesman. What apparently happened: Mr. Smith wished to escort Mrs. Brown home. So did Oilman Bell. In a tussle Oilman Bell shoved Mr. Smith, who fell in the gutter. Next afternoon he died at his hotel, supposedly of diabetes. Autopsy revealed a fractured skull...