Word: chime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...language, everywhere fails to treat its Gilbertian plot with Gilbertian high spirits. As artificial as the Yellowed Nineties which gave it birth, it has the pasty look and studied jauntiness of an elderly fop. The steady ticktock of its epigrams is broken only when one of them happens to chime. As Wilde said of the youthful Max Beerbohm, the gods have endowed the play's elegant, orchidaceous young men with the gift of perpetual...
...toys revolved in the windows. In each window at Franklin Simon's a cute white angel stood at a cute white organ under changing colored lights while organ music breathed from lofty loudspeakers. Lord & Taylor had windows full of its famed big, swinging golden bells with chime accompaniment, the same as last Christmas-the first "repeat" in recent Fifth Avenue history...
Frosty, white-haired President Francis Edward Frothingham of the Investment Bankers Association of America has a watch which, besides telling the time, boasts a chime, a barometer and a gadget that registers how the moon will be each night. Last week as I. B. A. gathered for its annual convention at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., the moon was only a thin sliver - an appropriate symbol for the investment banking business. Keynoted retiring President Frothingham: "Broadly speaking, there has for some time been no flow of new capital, the capital that employs men. From an average...
...surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty and a voice like a chime of bells. The Queen, envious of Snow White's beauty, hid her in the scullery. But though her work was grimy. Snow White was happy. She dreamed of a Prince who would some day come and take her away. Instead of a Prince, however, a fierce huntsman comes, sent...
...organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, are struck by hammers like piano keys. A chime or peal of church bells, from four to twelve in number, is tuned in the simple diatonic scale and the bells swing freely, emitting their not-always-melodious tones when struck by their clappers. In carillons, the biggest and the smallest bells are the trickiest to cast and tune. Ranked according to the size...