Word: croyden
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...airplane flying from Paris to London were six ducks. While the plane sped at 100 miles an hour over the Straits of Dover, one duck laid an egg. Alighting at Croyden, the pilot had the egg boiled...
Gillet & Johnson, bell founders, had cast the great carillon in Croyden, England, to the order of Mr. Rockefeller, who designed it as a memorial to his mother, There is no tawdry arrangement for electrical ringing. The carilloneur must strike every note by a pull on the keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world...