Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three or four days later--such things are not important with the Gallic police--a squad of gendarmes rang M. Daudet's door bell. M. Daudet's butler intimated that the master was not "at home". The gendarmes bowed and announced that they would wait. And so the "siege" that ended two days ago began. After M. Daudet had received French pastry, champagne, and other life maintaining victuals in great number from his friends, and after daily during the "siege" announcing that to surrender would mean the end of civil liberty, honour, and whatnot, M. Daudet quite naturally surrendered...
...Algernon Cecil-G. Bell & Sons, London...
...startling specimen was a transparent bell-shaped jellyfish, about a foot in diameter, which propels itself by opening and closing like an umbrella. This creature's interior is a dining room, playground and protectorate for as many as 300 little silvery fish. Unharmed by the host's poisonous tenacles and living on its killings, the parasite's swim in and out of its mouth at will...
...following Juniors are the men appointed: C. C. Abbott, T. H. Alcock, Bailey Aldrich, C. A. Allen, Eduardo Andrade, W. C. Atwater, H. C. Bartlett, Lawrence Batchelder, Dudley Bell, A. C. Bemis, G. A. Blowers, R. D. Bolster, S. E. Bowditch, L. S. Brayton, G. C. Bruen, B. G. Burbank, A. F. Callahan, J. F. Carr, C. M. Clark, E. L. Cox, Gardener Cox, George Crawford, J. P. Crosby, R. McD. Cunningham, Langdon Dearborn, D. P. Donaldson, R. T. Dunn, George Eaton, T. H. Eliot, A. V. Ellis, Herbert Farnsworth, R. G. Fiske, LeB. R. Foster...
Next morning, at 1 a. m., a band of about 300 Liberal soldiers, not yet disarmed, offered resistance in the hamlet of La Paz Centro to a platoon of U. S. marines commanded by Capt. Richard Bell Buchanan. For two hours and a half the engagement continued. Captain Buchanan fell, wounded in the chest and arms, and died some hours later. Fourteen Nicaraguans were killed. The rest scattered, but not until Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, U. S. M. C., had been instantly killed by a shot through the brain...