Word: rang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard C. Brokaw, Manhattan socialites, were playing backgammon at their Fifth Avenue residence when the doorbell rang. Darby, their butler, answered the door, was greeted by a personable young man who said he had a note for Mr. Brokaw. Darby accepted an envelope; as he did he found his ribs pressed by a revolver. "Take me to the Brokaws," commanded the personable young man. When he was obeyed, he told the Brokaws: "I need money and I need it badly...
Startled policemen blazed back. But five were almost instantly killed, the rest surrendered. Grimly the man in the bright yellow shoes barked orders. Part of his men set off at the double, rang the door bells of prominent officials, rushed upstairs and routed them from bed, hustled them pajama-clad and barefoot to the Central Police Station...
...paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were condemned, one after an-other to: "The highest measure of social protection, Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed by a crowd of 10,000 which had been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents, some of the men sentenced to death looked "broken," others "nervous," as OGPU police took them to their cells. Were they really going...
...Moscow quiet, firm diplomatic protests apparently had some effect. When the prisoners seemed inclined to keep on with confessions tending to incriminate high French officials by name, President Vyshinsky of the Court loudly rang his bell, announced that when accusations involving prominent foreigners were to the fore the Court would sit in secret with no broadcasting...
...Painswick, England, twelve boy bellringers, locked in a church tower with no food or drink, rang 17,687 changes (continuous, unrepcated harmony) on twelve bells in 11½ hr., claimed a record...