Word: ringers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free of charge, exchanging washer-dryer combinations for new, separate, 1959 washer and dryer units that are delivered and initially serviced free. The rush to redeem machines at a bargain rate has been crushing; Hotpoint has had to turn down housewives who hoped to palm off 20-year-old ringer-type washers, made by firms long out of business, for new models. To keep the machines off the used-washer market, Hotpoint dealers are stripping the motors, sledgehammering the machines to bits...
...youngest ballerina, 19-year-old Ekaterina Maximova. Unfortunately, the dancers' technique was more impressive than their material: among the selections was a glass-beaded resurrection of Walpurgis Night, from Gounod's Faust, with the satyrs decked out in yellow wigs that made each a dead ringer for Harpo Marx...
...vineyards and wheat fields around the village of Sotto il Monte (Beneath the Mountain), eight miles from the Lombardy town of Bergamo. Like his brothers and sisters, Angelo grew up to the life of a farmer-"At the age of ten." the 86-year-old church bell ringer remembered last week, "that boy worked in the fields with the sobriety of a grown...
Leaving Washington for the ten-day Easter recess, many a member of Congress took with him a firm conviction that he was going to find tax-cut sentiment running strong back home. Far from it, says roving Public-Opinion Canvasser Samuel Lubell, 46, self-styled "old doorbell ringer," whose intimate knowledge of the home front has given him a record of remarkable accuracy in calling the last two presidential elections...
...iguana, but as lovable as a kitten and no more frightening. In two earlier filmings of Victor Hugo's romance, Lon Chaney (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939) took care to spook the audience out of its wits before building up sympathy for the. lovesick, crookbacked bell ringer. But the current Technicolor version (with a French supporting cast, dubbed-in English) introduces Notre Dame's resident troll tenderly stroking a pigeon on one of the cathedral's balustrades, and the film plays hearts-and-gargoyles...