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Word: bells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alighting from her limousine Queen Mary climbed the stoop, pressed the bell. She waited some time, for a new, slow and surly Cockney wench had just been taken into service by the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Votes Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...this meeting that Frederick Ames '27 has been elected honorary president of the organization. At the same time the resignation of President Bump was announced. Bump was president of the Club for a term of one year and his resignation will take effect immediately. Accordingly, Vice-President R. B. Bell '30 was appointed to fill the vacancy. Bump will continue to be active in the Club's affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB PURCHASES NEW TRAVEL AIR PLANE | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

...merely arrests his attention and that which renders him temporarily blind. And there is the trolley's long descending squeal, the trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEARD IN A CLOISTER | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

...William James and Charles Horace Mayo, surgeons, dedicated their newest "mouse trap," a 19 story clinic building at Rochester, Minn., with a great ringing of a twenty-bell carillon hung in the tower. Their father, Dr. William Worrell Mayo, had settled in Rochester 65 years ago. When his sons hesitated in opening practice at the isolated small town, he persuaded them with Emerson's: "If you build a better mousetrap than your neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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