Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harold Bell Wright of Sophisticates
...church bell of St. Laurent sold to Mrs. Spencer Eddy, of the U. S.? Who authorized the sale? How much was paid for it? Where did the money go? We want our bell back." These were the questions that les citoyens of St. Laurent de Calvados, a village near Deauville, were asking. These were the same questions that M. le Prefect could not answer. He said that he knew nothing of it, would investigate...
...Diplomatic Gallery with a cold, calculating glare of insolence, shook their fists at the assembled diplomats. But nothing served to alter the cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany. Pandemonium fit for a madhouse continued. In vain did the President rap his desk and tinkle his bell. Some minutes later he succeeded in reducing the noise to an excited drone and announced that the finals-vote on the Railroad Bill was 314 to 127. The Experts' Plan was virtually in effect...
...traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses of buttered willow withes, will understand its magic. It must have been written "at an hour when hawkmoths first pass from bell to bell." Its meaning and its melody are "like the notes of a band of violins, all played by masters chosen from many ages, hidden on Midsummer's night in a wood, with a strange moon shining, the air full of madness and mystery; and, lurking close but invisible...
DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...