Word: headset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called his city desk, gave the verdict...
...saving Bobby Jones's life. For that the Burlington gave Pilot Freeburg a gold watch, the Chicago Daily News $100. The medal was for a feat unique in the history of air transport. The St. Paul radio operator of Northwest Airways one afternoon last month pressed his headset hard against his ears to hear again a laconic message: "Freeburg speaking. Just broke starboard propeller. Flying near Wabasha." Officials scowled apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight passengers. "Freeburg talking. Motor vibrating badly." Cool, Pilot Freeburg continued to describe to headquarters how the terrific vibration of the unbalanced propeller jerked...
Unsung Heroes. With a telephone headset clamped on his skull, President Hoover dominated the negotiations in Paris last week almost as completely as though he had been there like Theodore Roosevelt with a Big Stick. French papers again accused the President of roughness, rudeness and big stickery?but their tone was less angry than at first...
...division point. The smiling copilot, uniformed like a naval officer save that his shirt is blue, saunters through the cabin to serve box luncheons, or to invite passengers to step to the door of the pilot's compartment and hear weather reports through a radio headset. The plane passes near National Cash Register's factory at Dayton, on to Indianapolis' new municipal airport for another ten-minute stop. Beyond St. Louis no passenger will fail to notice the widening checkerboard of section line's. Thinning population is plainly charted by farm boundaries flung to the horizon...