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  AllRefer.com - Dorothy Leigh Sayers (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
For a time she worked as a copywriter in a London advertising agency : the setting for her Murder Must Advertise (1933).
(1923), which marked the debut of her nobleman-detective, Lord Peter Wimsey; he reappeared in 10 novels including The Nine Tailors (1934) and Gaudy Night (1935).
Her short stories featuring Wimsey were collected in Lord Peter (1972).
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 ipedia.com: Knights of Labor Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Knights of Labor was a U.S labor organization, started in Philadelphia in December 1869 by a group of nine tailors, led by Uriah S. Stephens.
Initially a secretive organization, it grew rapidly af...
Initially a secretive organization, it grew rapidly after 1872 and the collapse of the National Labor Union in 1873.
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 Blagovest Bells—Links
To the musical Belgian, for example, it appears that the proper thing to do with a carefully tuned ring of bells is to play a tune upon it.
the proper use of the bells is to work out mathematical permutations and combinations" (Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors).
By contrast, in the Russian tradition, it's impossible to have too many bells, and rhythm patterns can be hugely varied, so that there are distinctive patterns, for example, for the visitations of the patriarch and of a wonder-working icon– and for just about any other occasion.
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