Word: hellos
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...Hello, Cunningham," said the Commander in Chief. "How are you? Ready for the party...
...without breaking quarantine. The doctor was astonished. Thomas Edison demonstrated his talking machine to Peter Cooper, and the boys copied that too. They used their telephone diaphragm and the cook's rolling pin, which they stole while she was in the laundry. They got the machine to say "Hello," were irritated when P. T. Barnum withdrew his offer to pay $10,000 for a machine that would really talk...
...funny on the night, 15 years ago, when George Burns married his partner, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, in Cleveland. Benny's idea of humor was to call up the newlyweds from San Francisco at 3 a.m. He did so and, getting a male voice, inquired, "Hello, George?" The male voice at once barked, "Send up two orders of ham and eggs" and hung...
...least antiwar-emasculated it. They wanted no Army. They thought that war could be stopped. Their propaganda appealed to a war-sick nation. That propaganda was still going strong in 1940. "World Peace-ways Inc." spread its poster ads through the U.S. press: pictures of a maimed veteran captioned "Hello, Sucker," of a chemist bending over a fiendish brew...
...Tavern (TIME, June 21) last week the bird laughed, whistled, sneezed and sang The Star-Spangled Banner. At the preshow rehearsal, with a full audience, the feathered guest star was in especially fine form. Raffles pondered the best lines of Duffy's star, rumpled Ed Gardner, and cooed: "Hello, darling." Once, when the audience guffawed at a Gardner quip, the petulant bird fixed a baleful eye on the customers and shouted: "Quiet!" It brought down the house. On Fred Allen's program last spring Raffles, who is crow-size, flew away with the show by the simple expedient...