Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polack's eyes popped at a huge bell, four stories high. He wondered why anyone should want a bell that big. He strolled past a tinselly lagoon and came to five great exhibition halls, not one of which was complete and all of which were sparsely dotted with exhibits. He met some mustachioed Slavic friends who told him of a mysterious Treasure Island, of a quaint restoration of an 18th Century street, to the east of which towered a shining Oriental building, essence of India. He walked wonderingly on, viewed fireworks, stalwart live stock, grassless lawns, a stadium...
Since Gerhart Hauptmann is 64, ripe in honor, hoar in fame, no charge of "publicity seeking" was raised against the author of Vor Sonnenaufgang (Before Sunrise), precursor of the whole modern German realistic movement, Die versunkene Glocke (The Sunken Bell), and Rose Berndt...
...village of Samnaun, Switzerland, an old man entered a church a recent Sunday. He rang the bell a few minutes and then, as nobody came, mounted the altar and read a passage from the Bible. After the lesson he said a prayer and left the church, locking the door behind him. Every alternate Sunday for many years this old man has held such services. He is a Protestant, the only Protestant in Samnaun. Eighty years ago half the villagers were Catholic, half Protestant; they decided to build a church which should be at the service of each group on alternate...
...style more ambitious than his usual utterance. Consider the following sentence: "And when the wanton ravages of war reduced this once flourishing institution, which had spoken so boldly in the cause of liberty, to a state that left little but the vibrant tones of the college bell and the fervent prayers of a devout President, it was a distinguished son of Harvard, Senator Hoar, who pleaded her just cause with such eloquence in the halls of Congress that a dilatory Government at last made restitution for a part of the damage done, that this seat of learning might be restored...
...Kansas City was also the headquarters of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. (13 plants, 126 retail yards), which Robert Alexander Long has made famous, not only by trademarking each board he puts out, but more so by creating the model industrial city of Longview on a drab stretch of the Washington shore of the Columbia River. Oceangoing steamers can dock at Longview. It is a little west of Portland...