Word: marlis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wooden platform in the west tower of the Mexico City Cathedral, a wizened little man worked a 500-lb. clapper back & forth until the great bell gave tongue. With all the majesty of her 155 years and the strength of her 27,000 pounds, sonorous Santa María de Guadalupe boomed out the first glad tidings of Easter...
...little man, swinging the clapper again, looked anxiously toward the east tower-and thence, clear and sweet as the day she was cast 193 years ago, answered Dona María de la Asunción. A moment later Las Chiquitas, San Pablo, Dolores, Santa Delicates, Los Angeles, Carmen and La Trinidad joined their joyous tintinnabulation to the grave duet of Dona María and Santa María. The wrinkled face of the little old man in the west tower spread into a wide, happy grin...
...Hours of the Bells. The day, for José, begins at 5:30, when he climbs to the bell platform and sounds Dona María nine times. Then he has breakfast, slips into his cassock and runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass. At 8:30 he wanders into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour...
Together they set Dona María and the six Chiquitas ringing, sounding the deep-voiced Santa María once every five minutes for a half hour. When the last echoes have died away, Santa María solemnly booms the news that it is 9 o'clock. At 12 noon, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.-approximately-José repeats the performance. No one ever tries to set his watch by José's bells...
...Canadiens get their punch from the "punch line" composed of Maurice Richard (TIME, Mar. 3), Toe Blake and Elmer Lach (out for the rest of this season with a fractured skull). Ten years ago Blake was a leading tenant of what Montrealers call le pénitencier (penalty box). But last year, a reformed character, he won the Lady Byng Clean Play Trophy...