Word: ringer
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...swinging-bell ringer," as it is called, will take a few months at most to install, the "Harvard Alumni Bulletin" reports. The device will be operated by a motor in the Memorial Church steeple and a mechanical brain in the basement, known as a "program clock," which tells the mechanism when to ring...
Hollywood has contributed a touch of the ludicrous by putting Humphrey Bogart under a homburg and trying to palm him off as a scion of the rich. Bogart is an obvious ringer in the role; you can almost see him wince as he talks about cans of "tomahto" juice...
...signed by a famous painter and is worth a fortune, so he places himself in the hands of a grafter who offers him a life of ease, only to lose the very skin off his back. In Mr. Feasey, two earnest cheats bet all their money on the ringer they enter in a greyhound race, but the 17 bookies who take their bets prove to be just as imaginative and crooked as they...
Almost any of the 16 U.S. prisoners could be the ringer, and almost all of them are characterized in vignettes, deft without depth. A deeper probe is unnecessary, however, as the Americans are a typical Hollywood fox-hole cross-section, more like able than complicated not a Keefer in the crowd. Hence, playing the parts poses few problems, and the cast is even better than need-be. It is led by old hand George Tobias, who portrays the rollicking bulk called Stosh, and Douglas Watson, who does well by surly Sefton. Comedy bits are added by Jerry Jarrett and others...
Some 80 years ago, a German dogcatcher named Louis Dobermann determined to breed a new strain of dog that would combine the agility of a terrier, the strength of a shepherd and the grace of a greyhound. Assisted by two friends, a gravedigger and a bell ringer, Dobermann interbred pinschers, shepherds, rottweilers and black and tan terriers, to get an intelligent, powerful new breed that won distinction as a war dog in both World Wars and as a "seeing eye" for the blind...