Word: belling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prized utensils. But these Americans, sports of war and wealth, knew nothing of pearls . . . only the jangling of diamonds. Jacob Dreicer rented a basement room, sorted his pearls, graded them, matched them into the finest necklaces. He made up a necklace of emeralds and pearls for Mrs. Isaac Bell, for $5,500. Later the centre pearl alone of this necklace brought $90,000, money that went to establish the Bell Home for Gentlewomen. Twenty years in the U. S. brought him some wealth. So he moved to Fifth Avenue. Delmonico's was next door. Bankers and merchants would...
Seven additional petitionary nominations for the Freshman Dormitory Committees, two from Gore Hall and five from McKinlock, have been received by the Nomination Committee. These men are J. W. Blazek and E. W. Remick from Gore, Hall, Conrad Bell, Jr., Rogers Donaldson. J. C. Dudley, Arthur Ingraham, and N. B. Williams from McKinlock Hall...
...mile-high mountain of the deep sea-to see what can be seen by the light of luminous fishes. Last week he announced that a leading steel corporation was making him a specially designed deep-sea diving tank, doubtless on the order of Inventor Hartman's "diving bell" which has penetrated thousands of feet deeper than any live man ever went in the ocean and came back to tell about it (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925). The tank is fitted with oxygen pumps and other breathing apparatus and a glass window capable of withstanding many tons of pressure...
There are other things, adds Mr. Frank, which symbolize America as much as jazz: Ethelbert Nevin's "The Rosary" is as native as Irving Berlin's "All Alone"; and Harold Bell Wright and the New York Daily News could exist only in this land of our forefathers. But such trifles are ignored by the modernists, even though they are folk art. As Mr. Frank points out, aesthetic acceptance depends on the intrinsic value of art, whether it be folk or fine. If jazz is good it is good because it is jazz, not because it is American. To be pedantic...
Dedicating a $250,000 memorial at University of Missouri, a bell tolled 117 times last week, once for each dead War student. 25,000 alumni and friends attended. Suzzallo. If not wanted at the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18), Dr. Henry Suzzallo, onetime president there, finds favor at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Manhattan, of which he has been a trustee since 1919. Last week he was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Coincidentally, Dean David Thomson of the college of Liberal Arts was elected President of University of Washington, at $10,000 a year...