Word: chimes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whimsical turn and have ever pumped an oldtime church organ, you probably belong to The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25). If you go to church you may know your parish organist. Many a person goes to cinemas partly to hear the tremolos and chime-effects of the neighborhood Wurlitzer. But most people belong to none of these classes, are vague about the position of organists in the musical world, unaware of their interests, their problems...
...Knowing that soon the bells will chime...
...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...
...work of getting the 10-ton bell off the truck trailer upon which it was moved and into the shack took a group of movers over four hours. In order to lower the huge chime to the ground, a runway had to be built from the rear of the truck and skids put under the bell to roll it down to the ground. At the first attempt the great weight splintered a pair of skids six inches by eight. While this work was going on, the driver of a passing truck stopped to read the Russian inscription on the bell...
September smelts its autumnal ore in skies of glowing gold. The cicada shrills, a drowsy not steals into the crickets' chime, elm leaves rust toward the pensive melancholy of their yellowing. Such rites of the year's decay are reminders of the academic year's renewal. It is time to go back to school, and this week six hundred lucky Harvard undergraduates, having returned to their studies, live in two of the most stately new schoolhouses over built in America, houses so beautiful one would think that after having once lived in them the rest of life would be exile...