Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bell sans tongue, a saw sans teeth...
...wall of the north portion of the White House is a bell. On a recent afternoon. President Coolidge pressed this bell repeatedly, scampered quickly away. To the north portico rushed a detail of Secret Service men, to whom the bell's ringing was a summons to come at once. From a distance, the President watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away...
...time to be caught by a social service worker as they come from the movies: they have been living on charity since Mr. Hildebrand ran off with another woman. More talk of the heat. The crowd disperses. It is quiet except for the rumble of the subway, the bell of a fire engine, the bark of a dog. Mrs. Maurrant's daughter Rose appears with a man. He is Harry Easter, office manager. He tries to kiss Rose, but fails. He propositions her; she is too beautiful, too clever for office work. He has a friend who will...
Tracy Drake, boniface of the smart Drake and Blackstone Hotels, Chicago, protested, last week, against a new action of the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. to cut commissions on income from public booth phones. Said Mr. Drake: "We're all slaves of the monopolistic telephone company. You know we have to pay the loss on bad slugs." To which, William D. Bangs, general counsel for the telephone company, queried: "Is it possible that the clientele of the Blackstone and the Drake should drop bad slugs in the phones...
Wellesley and Harvard reveal a wide diversity of tastes in phonograph records, according to N. A. Bell of the Music Box, which has stores in both college communities. Comparatively few classical recordings are taken at Wellesley, while the smoother dance numbers are in perpetual demand...