Word: chimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modernistic, however, is the Brooklyn office of this same concern. Designed by Mrs. H. Lawrence Carpenter, wife of Brooklyn Office Manager H. L. Carpenter, the Keech & Co. suite in the Williamsburg Savings Bank Building tower is fitted up like the interior of a yacht. Thus ships' bells chime out the hours, and sunlight enters not through windows but through portholes. The office has also a special room for women-traders...
...Pronounced "kareeong." President Coolidge Americanized it phonetically, said "karilon." A carillon differs from a chime principally in that its bells do not swing, and that they are tuned to a chromatic scale. A carillon is played on a keyboard like a piano but the carilloneur strikes the keys with his fists. *There are 283 persons in the U. S. with incomes more than...
...harmoniously does this declaration chime with the views of Secretary Kellogg that last week British editors began to warn British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain not to let himself be outsmarted by Dr. Stresemann in securing the goodwill of the U. S. Sir Austen, obviously embarrassed, soon made an unfortunate public allusion at Birmingham to the "unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country...
...longer does the voice of God, as it is reputed once to have done, drum across the sky in the sound of storm or make a friendly whisper in the wilderness. Angels come to earth no more and the night is never filled now with the strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone...
...points out urbanely that this policy is by no means "exclusive", and that we would be exclusive if we insisted on playing the same institutions year after year", that "it simply asserts that we prefer to play the game as a same." The Editors, in their own page, chime in an active higher, and berate in a few semi-quavers the easy chair athletes whose howls mingle lugubriously with the dally chronicles of arson, murder, and adultery in the columns of New York and Boston journals...