Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whanging out this Brobdingnagian music was a prim, bald-headed carillonneur named Kamiel Lefre, No. 1 bellwhanger of the U. S. carillonneur of the Riverside Church and president of the North American Guild of Carillonneurs. Hard at work inside a little wooden booth at one end of the platform, through a glass window he could be seen pulling, slapping and stamping at the levers and pedals of the most complicated piece of bell-ringing machinery in the U. S. When he had boomed his last bong, Carillonneur Lefre emerged from his booth in a dignified sweat, took off his gloves...
...plays in his underwear. Says he : "I really think we've got a great mission here, but we have to work hard. The carillon is a folk instrument. It sings with the people...
...together 36 of its 42 governors. In Wall Street the bankers were meeting again. From all over the U. S. demands that the Exchange be closed poured in on the bankers' meeting. At the last minute, the telephone connection set up between Exchange governors and the bankers failed to work. In the excitement the bankers forgot to man their end of the line...
Expenditures: Nails, 70? ; postage, 39?; work on street and bridge, $10.75; lumber, $10.10; election, $3.00; gravel, $39.40; hauling, $1.25; pump repair, $1.00; tax collector's commissions, $19.23; cash on hand, $129.30. Total...
...true! Every word true! Not a lie in it!" So Daniel Boone used to crow about Kentucke, the famous Kentucky history which first printed his "autobiography." It was this alleged autobiography, the orotund work of a neighbor, Schoolmaster John Filson, that first spread Boone's fame as No. 1 U. S. frontiersman, started the boom in Boone legend. Just how many lies Boone's "autobiography" contained, biographers have been busy discovering ever since...