Word: bells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garnet de Bal (Studios Francois I) is as expertly designed and executed a piece of dramatic tapestry as the cinema has woven in many a year. Its pat pattern follows the musing finger of a French widow (Marie Bell) as she traces over the names on the program of her first ball, nearly 20 years ago, then sets out to check up on these beaux of yesteryear...
...date when the first bell chimed is lost in Oriental antiquity, but most authorities agree that bells, as distinguished from gongs, cymbals and tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny...
...shocks which knocked the ticker four minutes behind and kept traders on the jump with the biggest volume since January-1,600,000 shares. Next day, being Saturday, was only a half-day for trading, but the frantic dumping of securities reached 1,380,000 shares before the closing bell brought the debacle to a halt. As the ticker caught up, brokers for the first time in three weeks forgot to talk about Richard Whitney. They were too busy reading that U. S. Steel was down to $44, U. S. Rubber to $25, American Telephone & Telegraph...
Gilbert Gable is short, jovial and 51. Born in Pennsylvania, he never went to college, served for nine years before the War as publicity counsel for Bell Telephone Co. During the War he headed Liberty Loan drives. After it, he became an explorer, discovered dinosaur tracks in Arizona and a primitive Indian village. ''Lost Mesa," was made a chief of the Navaho tribe with a certificate written in human blood to prove it. Six years ago he took as his second wife Paulina Stearns, daughter of a wealthy Ludington, Mich, lumber family. In 1933 he went to southwestern...
Died. Floyd Orlin Hale, 55, president of Illinois Bell Telephone Co.; after long illness; in Hartford, Conn. A Dartmouth alumnus (1903), he was stricken with a heart attack at New Haven last fall in the closing minutes of the Yale-Dartmouth football game when Yale came from behind to tie the score (TIME, Nov. 8), never recovered...