Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Through Postal Telegraph, Chicago University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins three weeks ago had a birthday message sung over the telephone to his wife. Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," stopped it. Through Western Union one can send any of twelve prepared birthday greetings, have notes, letters, orangeade, sandwiches delivered by messenger, subscribe to TIME. Last week Western Union added a new service when it agreed to accept packages at all of its offices for shipment through the Railway Express Agency. At no extra cost Western Union messengers will call for packages up to the value of $250, take...
...Hutchins remembered that it was also the birthday of her good friend Mrs. Howard Linn, ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next day, faced with similar requests from Chicago socialites, Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," forbade it. Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that he would personally acknowledge all contributions for the Save-the-Philharmonic drive sent to him at Manhattan's Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest...
...hundreds of hands dealt after one, two, three and four shuffles, Mr. Woodruff shows that it takes at least four good shuffles to produce the proper quota of uneven distribution. With the help of an M. I. T. colleague, he has invented a machine controlled by a 52-lobe irregular cam which is designed to deal a pack into hands of the ideal random type in four seconds...
...pursued through dozens of imaginative infernos that mirror the modern world. Most of these drawings were made in his square, asbestos-shingled studio in Bethel, Conn., which resembles a shooting gallery. The quality of Art Young's drawing, like that of all extremely productive artists, is highly irregular. The best is almost worthy of that of his model and hero, the late great Paul Gustave Doré. Among the better Hell drawings is one entitled "Clock Conscious." Two other Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump...
...Samuels, Baconian scholar, editor, and independent book vendor, uncrooked one elbow from around a copy of "Ear ce Rammed," peered intently through his spectacles, and poked a long bony finger at the CRIMSON reporter. "Sure, I'm still here," said he, indicating with a jerk of his head the irregular piles of volumes stacked along the side of his hole in the wall at 30a Boylston St. "Sure, the cops've got nothing on me. They're just trying to scare me out. I don't have to have any license...