Word: numberals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wrong Number...
...your copy of TIME, June 3, under "Miscellany," I read about the man in Brooklyn who answered the telephone when it was the wrong number and in doing so saved himself and family from dying by poisonous gases...
...incident which happened in this town not long ago of a woman whose telephone rang at three o'clock in the morning. She fell down stairs and broke her leg. Another member of the family answered the telephone and was informed that the party had the wrong number. This woman did not thank the telephone operator...
...question became further tangled when Representative James O'Connor of Louisiana, with true Celtic pride and vigor, sought official recognition for St. Brandan and "a number of Irish heroes" as the first voyagers, in the Sixth Century, to the new land across the ocean...
...Guardia, who aspires despite a number of Irish politicians to be Mayor of New York, was not to be talked out of his contention in behalf of Columbus. His objections were overcome only when Congressman Burtness consented to strike the whole preamble out of his resolution, to leave the question of America's discovery, so far as the House of Representatives was concerned, wide open. Grinning with satisfaction, Congressman La Guardia sat down and the resolution was passed...