Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dudley Bell of Waltham...
...Belle Bennett as Mrs. Fleming has been out of an evening in 1914 when her husband, Colonel Fleming, returns unexpectedly from his regiment. He discovers that she has been gambling bell, money and time with Count Deoder. Being a soldier he refuses to arbitrate and declares he never wants to see her again. At just that moment someone knocks at the front door. It is a despatch, ordering immediate mobilization...
Patent monopoly of the Bell telephone endured for 17 years. Then independent companies immediately sprang up. The Bell system fought them ruthlessly for years. But local support kept them going, expanding. They formed national organizations, gave a tolerable toll service, far inferior to that of the Bell. Competition stimulated the use of phones. All companies that were fairly efficient made money. In 1912 a sort of peace was worked out between the rivals. The Bell began to give long distance service to Independents. When an Independent was bought out facilities. At present there are 8,200 Independent exchanges still existing...
...Alexander Graham Bell developed the telephone into a practicality...
...open spaces of ex-Senator Bob Millar of that state.? Her cosmopolitan sophistication inclines to dapper young Count André de Servaise. Both men are out to marry money, of which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing the adage about glass houses and stone-flinging...