Word: bellinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesse would walk as much as 20 miles to fill his bag with books to bring back to his pupils. "I went with [them] to cornhuskings, apple-peelings, bean stringings, square dances, and to the belling of the bride when there was a wedding . . . I never missed a party at...
¶ The custom of noisily serenading a couple on their wedding night is called a shivaree (from the French charivari) in the Mississippi Valley, belling in Western Pennsylvania, skimmelton in the Hudson Valley, horning in Rhode Island.
As the excited belling of presidential candidates drew nearer & louder last week, assorted listeners rose in public to state their choice and take their stand
But the feel of home and peace was more than this. In the cattle country it was the excitement of rodeo time: the smell of corrals, the sight of a squealing bronco making his first, lurching jump in dusty sunlight. To many an American it was the lovely, casual look...
To Jimmy Hines, political activity was life, and vice versa. During his gaudy years as a Tammany boss the line formed each morning outside his bedroom door. Supplicants began filing past his bed as soon as he awakened. He listened, smiling genially, to them all. They were the basis of...