Word: chimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Father threw open Indian Territory to his white children. A few months later Elmer Thomas hung his shingle over the doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma in the U. S. Senate, and Fletcher Settle Riley...
...mystification,' in other words a piece of undergraduate pleasantry. "There is no R. P. L. in Harvard University. . . . ". . . I have naturally attributed your present success to the mathematics you learned from me 35 years back. . . ." The President replied: "I am not in the least perturbed about the chime of bells because strictly between ourselves, I should much prefer to have a puppy dog or a baby named after me than one of those carillon effects that is never quite in tune and which goes off at all hours of the day and night! At least one can give paregoric...
...quiet was broken. Shorts took fright: how long could the Exchange remain open? No time at all if great New York banks closed. And when exchanges close prices are usually higher at reopening-said those with memories of 1914. The market began to boil, prices to mount, traders to chime in, eager to own stocks if currency was going to depreciate, bank deposits to be tied...
Ardent Teuton longings for a union with Italy (and "revenge" on France) caused German newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...
...George is the name workmen have given the clock in London's new Shell-Mex Tower. Old George's face is broader (25 ft.) than Big Ben's (22) ft.) but his hands are not quite so long. Nor can Old George, like Big Ben, chime...