Word: belling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germans in the know whispered to friends that there isn't any "Dorothy Lane," or any J. L. S. Weekly, that the play had been entirely concocted by Elizabeth Hauptmann, pungent Socialist playwright (no relation to Playwright Gerhart [Sunken Bell] Hauptmann ), and that the last act would be etwas famos! ("swell...
...bagpipe was the forerunner of the pipe-organ. Some early man found that by blowing into a bag with several ramifying reeds attached he could produce many notes at once. That and the "drone," a bell-ended pipe attached to the bag which sounds an uninterrupted bass note, are the main characteristics of the bagpipe. It has a limited range of notes, is very difficult to play. The bag is held under the piper's left arm, the blowpipe which feeds the bag is held in his mouth, his fingers play along the "chaunter," the melody pipe punctuated with lateral...
...which enabled the President to promote Pershing from captain to brigadier general has unfortunately been revoked-the law that "ave us such men as Pershing, Wood, Bell, runston. Now the Government can do nothing to Accelerate the promotion of a brilliant soldier it finds down the list but such a man must wait or those above him to die off or retire...
...national significance of this Camp-bell-Whalen incident seemed to be that it was the first concrete test-and failure-of the Hoover policy of Federal and local co-operation on Prohibition enforcement (TIME, July 29 et seq.). New York is the largest and wettest of many a large, wet U. S. city where Prohibition is hardest and most expensive to enforce. If Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston et al follow New York's lead and decline to "cooperate" through their police forces, the Hoover policy, if continued, will resolve itself into a one-sided thing...
Long after little Hollis and his mother went to bed, as the ship's bell struck midnight, they were all but thrown from their berths by a lurch of the vessel. Half awake, the child could hear screams, shrieks, the anguished cries of the humans in great peril. Quickly his mother bundled him in her arms, rushed him through a fear-tormented mob to the deck. Stars had disappeared. On the foggy deck, indistinct figures ran about, cursing and praying for life preservers...