Word: blabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent article, ". . . And Now a Word about Commercials" [July 12], suffers from one serious omission. It does not mention a device known to the fraternity of electricians as the "blab-off." This consists of an electric cord of any length, with an on-off switch at one end, the other attached to the speaker in the set. With it you can turn off the sound as you wish, while the picture continues. Any electrician will install this thing for a trifling fee. The viewer then need not pay to the sponsor the "heavy tribute" of listening to commercials...
BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. The amusing, confusing life and times of Cassius Clay in a sharp-eyed biography that unerringly-and engagingly-separates fact from bigmouth blab...
...tonic tale called Passionella, in which a forlorn chimney sweep named Ella sits by the TV set one night when her "friendly neighborhood godmother" turns her into Passionella, a gorgeous movie queen. But the spell works each day only between the first commercial of Huckleberry Hound and the last blab of the Late Late Show. The other playlet, George's Moon, is an astringent parable of faith, hope and hostility. George is a worried little man who lives alone on the moon, counting craters, drop-kicking rocks and looking for something to believe in. He tries believing in himself...
...deForest receivers) took an ad in the Sun-Times to say that it is "unAmerican and unsportsmanlike" for other set manufacturers to market remote control gadgets that make it easy for a TV viewer to kill the sound when a commercial goes on the air (some 2,500,000 "blab-offs" are now in operation in the U.S.). Adding that the public ought to be grateful to the advertisers who pay for the shows, Sanabria included coupons for people to send to their Congressmen, urging that all remote control cutoffs be outlawed...