Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigation of the American Bell Telephone Co. by the Federal Trade Commission, as a monopoly, taking monopoly profits...
...audience, deserves no little admiration. By means of thoroughly adequate scenery and "props", and the services of the old West Indian, "Mammy" Pleasant, an extremely advantageous current of excitement and hysteria is set up, which needs only the slamming of a door or the tolling of a bell to produce instant uproar,--not only on the stage but off. Occasional periods of silence on the stage are filled with the giggles and titters of the more emotional members of the audience, often swallowing up some significant mysterious noise, and it is not hard to believe that the actors catch...
...underlying grip which any good story must possess. No amount of artistry can make a story if it has not an emotional basis. There is a good vulgar word which describes the quality of which I am speaking. Wallace Irwin has it in his writing, so too have Harold Bell Wright, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens? and the word is guts! You may not like it?but I can think of no other word which so completely expresses what I mean...
...Wood '26, 6-0, 6-2; C. Grayson '27 defeated M. Goldstein '26, 6-1, 6-1; H. C. Havighurst 1L., won by default from C. M. Hastings '25; A. R. Allen Jr. '26 defeated L. F. Holmes, 8-6, 6-0; K. C. Black '24 defeated G. K. Bell Jr. '26, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; F. B. Hill Jr. '26 defeated J. S. Hathaway '24, 6-3, 6-2; L. H. Gordon '27 defeated J. M. Greeley '25, 6-4, 6-2; N. B. Wildes '24 defeated C. H. Wheldon...
Owen Wister, author: "A fortnight ago TIME arbitrarily stated that Mr. Harold Bell Wright is the only American author to have a hotel named after one of his fictional characters. Medicine Bow, Wyo., (where certain incidents of my best-known novel are said to have taken place), has named its most elaborate and commodious hotel The Viginian...