Word: disconnect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heir-apparent to the Van Climber (washing machine) millions elopes with a chorus girl. Parental displeasure is great. Public curiosity is greater. The Van Climbers disconnect their telephones, lock the crested gates of their country estate, refuse to be interviewed. For lack of facts, tabloids print lurid verbal composo-graphs, imaginary interviews, gossip gleaned in the Van Climber garage and scullery. Then the Van Climbers scowl and growl at the inaccuracy of the garbled stories, threaten to sue the offending journals...
That Mr. Andrew Volstead, a noted resident of a middle western city, has been forced to disconnect his telephone and substitute a private line whose number is known only to his trusted and less humorous friends, is by no means strange. During the day and night, according to the well-known legislator, the line has been busy with calls from travelling citizens who on finding themselves in his city, have seen fit to force upon him their opinions of the law which bears his name. Those who have suffered from strange greetings over the wire on April Fool...