Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power line from Bonneville Dam, lumberjacks brought down a ponderosa pine. Tied by a shriveled leather thong, high in the treetop was the answer to the mystery of Kamela: a bronze cattle bell, inscribed with the date 1878. It carried the words "Saignelegier"-"Chiantel"-"Fondeur." Its clapper was worn smooth by years of gentle tinkling. The people of Kamela guessed that a pioneer had tied it to a sapling that grew into a towering pine...
Walther fixed an inhalator tube to the baby's nose, slipped the laryngoscope down behind the tongue root, lifted the "clapper valve" (epiglottis) and looked in. Clearly visible was a one-inch celluloid ball (from a rattle), filling the windpipe. Alligator forceps thrust down the channel of the surgical shoehorn brought the ball out in 30 seconds, and Baby Thomas gasped. Soon he was breathing regularly again...
...Louis S. CLAPPER...
Reporter Shannon's articles, running in the Journal this week, began with Zebulon High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...
...Nassau Hall, where the sophomores overwhelmed the freshmen. The Daily Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated for injuries. Other class spirit activities described by the Princetonian this fall included the shaving of the heads of five freshmen, a series of thefts involving a hired airplane and the clapper to the Nassau hall bell, and the annual Cane Spree, which promptly initiated another riot...