Word: peals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unseen sampietrini (workmen) upon a bell-signal from the master of ceremonies. Down, down it went, and was wheeled away on massive casters affixed beforehand. Came the penitents of the Vatican basilica, with holy water and blessed towels, to scour and scrub and dry the aperture. Came a thunderous peal of joy from the bells of St. Peter's, echoed at once all over Rome by 400 other church belfries. The Pope stood erect on his throne and chanted thanksgiving. The Sistine choir burst into the sublime music of Palestrina. It was the Holy Year, the 23rd Jubilee...
...message then contained an appeal to the civilized world: "We ap- peal to the League of Nations to put an end to these crimes and to take severe measures against this savagery, which makes humanity and civilization tremble...
...sensitive souls who have failed to become immune to the bell, curse its insistent clamor as heartily as the bell-man, doomed to incommode not only himself but a good many others. And those who now never hear the seven o'clock bell would face an eight o'clock peal with becoming equanimity...
...mystery play, the Italian plot seems superior in 'several respects: it has three more revolver shots, four more screams, and 32 more embraces. To offset this, however, the lights go out five more times in the Russian play, and there is one "peal of insane laughter" offstage. There is, besides, an excellent seance scene in which the stage hands will be kept very busy giving ghostly raps to the scenery, blowing open the doors, and snapping up the window shades...
...eleven o'clock, Saturday, November 11--an hour and day most sacred in the memories of many of us--if you happened to be among those sons of Harvard who in their silence guard the entrance to the Widener Memorial Room you would have heard not only the musical peal of Cambridge Church bells. But, from the very interior of that beautifully impressive room you would have heard the incessant, mechanical click of the modern typewriter. Must this clerical work be done within an atmosphere that is the most consecrated on the University grounds...