Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia the delegates debarked and were carried to Independence Hall and saw the Liberty Bell and Mayor Kendrick. As they were leaving some Irish Republicans rushed the police guard and almost "got" General Mulcahy, former Minister of the Free State. Afterwards Magistrate Fitzgerald fined one Michael McFadden $13.50, and gave one Daniel O'Rourke 3G days for saying he did not like the U. S. and wanted to go back to Ireland. But the delegates went on to a reception at former Governor Sproul's and then entrained once more, getting to Washington late in the evening...
...Father. Harold Bell Wright composes motion picture literature and sells it by the million copies. He has more competition when his plots reach the screen. There are plenty of people who can think up just as obvious adventures as he can; adventures which will photograph well against a background of the dusty West. This one is about an Irish girl, come all the way to Arizona to find her wandering brother. She finds herself in addition a close shooting, hard riding, handsome husband...
...like a catalytic agent, without itself changing character. Purely, austerely scientific are the training and practice of a modern chemist. Of enormous commercial value, and hence of social significance, are his works where he is employed, he and a thousand brother experimenters, by interests like Du Pont, Ford, Eastman, Bell and the U. S. Government...
...steeple of the Park Avenue Baptist Church a man was capering in frenzied activity, engaged with two rows of levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...
Gillet & Johnson, bell founders, had cast the great carillon in Croyden, England, to the order of Mr. Rockefeller, who designed it as a memorial to his mother, There is no tawdry arrangement for electrical ringing. The carilloneur must strike every note by a pull on the keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world...