Word: chime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owner puts his cradle-type telephone on the machine. When the phone rings, a mechanism lifts the receiver and turns on a phonograph record. The owner's own recorded voice announces that he is out, asks the caller to leave his message at the sound of a chime. When the owner returns, a meter tells him how many calls have come in, and a wire recorder repeats the messages (up to 60 minutes of them). The wire can be erased and used over again. Retail price...
...twelfth chime of midnight died out, a conch shell, traditional herald of the dawn, sounded raucously through the chamber. Members of the Constituent Assembly rose. Together they pledged themselves "at this solemn moment . . . to the service of India and her people. . . ." Nehru and Prasad struggled through the thousands of rejoicing Indians who had gathered outside to the Viceroy's House (now called the Governor General's House) where Viscount Mountbatten, who that day learned he would become an earl, awaited them. There, 32 minutes after Mountbatten had ceased to be a Viceroy,* Nehru and Prasad rather timidly, almost...
...burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime out again and tell all men that England's England still...
Murray's biggest card is his ability to get headliners in the audience to participate. Some of them, such as Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, chime in from down front. Others, such as W. C. Fields, Mickey Rooney, Victor Moore, Edgar Bergen, Dick Powell, Rudy Vallee, take over the stage. Murray exploits his guest stars brilliantly-by not exploiting them at all. They are never given billing, are often not even introduced. As a result, the audience feels it is really getting something extra for its money...
...Mingled Chime.* "The English," remarks Sir Thomas, "are the laziest nation in the world. Since the radio we have become practically comatose. I foresee a generation which will never get out of bed." Sir Thomas' own lack of laziness is underlined by the fact that he has added writing to his other activities: he has a work in progress on Beaumont & Fletcher, and a forthcoming autobiography called A Mingled Chime...