Word: belling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cartoonist Bud Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) found many a stray dog last year on his newly-purchased Carmel, N. Y., estate. He ordered his Negro butler, James Bell, to get rid of them. This Butler Bell did, darkly, until only one dog was left. When, last week, he got around to this dog, Mr. Fisher's caretaker, Frank Candee, protested. Caretaker Candee had become attached to the dog. Butler Bell paid no heed, raised his rifle, killed the creature. Caretaker Candee, irate, got out a knife. Butler Bell, standing in the driveway, raised his gun again and fired five times more...
Carillons. Great is the dispute between U. S. and foreign bell-makers as to their relative skill in casting carillons. The issue cropped up hotly before the Senate Committee last week in connection with the carillon purchased in England by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. The present duty on carillons is 40%. The House bill cut this duty to 20%. William R. Conklin, Rockefeller counsel, urged the elimination of all duty, asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells...
...trouble had begun when Mario De Figueiredo, Minister of Justice, signed a decree increasing the citizens' freedom to hold religious parades and to ring churchbells while they did so. Previous regulations had required official permission for each and every general bell-ringing. Reason : it is often by churchbells that popular revolts are called. Disgruntled at this relaxation in the strong-arm sway of Dictator-President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, the Minister of War and others protested. The difference could not be settled...
Gary Phone. Supreme in the U. S. telephone field is Bell, subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph. Supreme among independent phone companies became the Theodore Gary interests of Kansas City, which last week bought control of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. of St. Paul, Dakota Central Telephone Co. of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and eight other companies. Tri-State operates about 165,000 telephones, earns some $1,200,000 per annum, is valued at between...
...Williams and his navigator, Lewis A. Yancey, took off for Rome in the Bellanca monoplane Pathfinder, their third start in six weeks. Heavily loaded (450 gal. of fuel), the plane barely missed an amusement pier, reached an altitude of 500 feet, soon disappeared. Townsfolk, watching the takeoff, noticed strange bell-shaped "trousers" over the Pathfinder's wheels. A mechanic explained: streamline aluminum cowling, sharp at the front, breaks the wind...