Word: chimeses
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February 22, Washington's birthday, will mark the first ringing of the Lowell House bells. The 17 chimes have been hoisted up into the tower, and work has been started on removing the scaffolding.
The Lowell House bells differ from ordinary carillons in that they do not conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept...
Died. Louis Henry Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, 87, War hero; of bronchial pneumonia; at Rheims. In 1914 at Rome, he heard of the bombardment of Rheims, hastened home to be with his endangered parishioners. Forbidden to entrain from Paris for Rheims, he motored there, slept in a cellar, tended...
Guido Francveschini then began to ring the chimes. He was removed to a lunatic asylum.
The Cathedral of St. Isaac in Leningrad (once St. Petersburg) is now the Counter-Religion Museum. It contains a display of 1,100 pairs of nails, said to have been collected from 1,100 villages. The Russian Clergy are accused of having permitted the adoration of each and every pair...