Word: clappers
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...Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing of Bessie in the belfry, her wild hair and her reticule swinging free, silencing the signal for Basil Underwood's death...
...might be with the missing Memorial Hall bell clapper now if a member of the Yard Police hadn't surprised the group of roaring rowdies, fresh from the muskrat slaughter in the Yard. But their efforts to roll him, drag him, scrape him away ended ignominiously in the safety of a speeding...
Following out their calm assurances of preparedness, University officials have replaced the clapper of the Memorial Hall bell, which was stolen last Tuesday, with a new hammer...
...This clapper makes a very weak "ping" sound, and to add to the general disappointment resulting from the these of the deeper bass, no measures have been reported to prevent similar thefts happening again in the future...
Mystery stalks the rafters of Memorial Hall's lofty belfry since the huge bell was rendered impotent Tuesday by the theft of its clapper. At some time between 9 and 5 o'clock during the day pranksters found access to the seldom frequented and labyrinthine passage to the tower, bent on robbery...