Word: pealing
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...Vincennes, Ind., Mrs. Lyndon Eberly and her daughter, Helen, heard on the radio that Sergeant Richard Eberly, 21, had been one of the first to be landed by air in France. The Eberlys prayed. At 3:30 a.m. in Marietta, Ga., the bell of the Methodist Church began to peal; by 4, every church was lighted, and in every church the people prayed...
...many a parish, shorn by the war of its change ringers, only a lone peal rang out the good tidings of Easter. But Londoners were especially delighted to hear St. Paul's bells ring the half-hour-long Stedman Cinques. Alfred B. Peck, for 40 years bell-ringer at the Cathedral, had long been awaiting this day. All through Britain's darkest hours he and his 13 assistants bad practiced regularly on the Cathedral's twelve-bell peal with a special muffling apparatus that prevented any sound...
...pattern had changed; but the spirit was the same. The bells in the tall church spires would peal out across the land; the greetings, the hand clasps would be more heartfelt than ever. It would take more than a year of global war to dim out American good will...
...garden, we found Paul Poiret, an ivory whip in his hand, enthroned in the "midst of his beautiful harem. . . . There were men with huge snakes coiled about their necks . . . and fantastic-looking fortunetellers . . . one who had diamonds incrusted in her teeth. . . . As a finale, there was a peal of thunder, and as the 'storm' broke, the guests were showered with a rain of stars and thousands of brilliant insects which buzzed about, while the monkeys and parrots chattered and shrieked in terror...
WASHINGTON--Gen. Douglas MacArthur's amazing little band of airmen appeared tonight--in one smashing blow--to have avenged" with compound interest" the death of every American soldier and sailor who perished at Peal Harbor...