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...stomping about, vacuum cleaning, banging the garbage pail, shoveling coal at all hours of the day & night, digging after dark in a garden by the Masons' windows. As soon as he went out, his telephone began ringing. Then they began hearing hit, new clocks-a half hourly loud chimer and an especially vigorous cuckoo clock-right above their bedroom. The Masons moved their bed into the living room, a maneuver that did not escape Smith's stethoscope. The clocks moved into the room directly above. Once during a three-day absence Smith left his radio blaring away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of Bedlam | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Chime-Ringer I. H. Auld, who had to answer many of the indignant telephone calls, grew weary making his explanation. Like many another popular song, especially of the oldtime barroom variety, the tune of "How Dry I Am" was originally a good old hymn. Chimer Auld said he had merely been playing "O Happy Day" to which the words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: O Happy Day | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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