Word: phones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palace, Sir," the Duke was informed, whereat Windsor used a few choice expressions and the Keeper of the King's Privy Purse was finally coerced to the phone. Among dignitaries of the Court, all now thoroughly tired of Windsor, the expression was current this week: "If he gets what he probably will get, the Royal Family will have precious little personal income left for themselves during the next five years...
Brisbane's Phone Sirs...
...started when a trio of students worn out with the reading period and exhilarated by a bottle of 15-year-old Scotch, so our anonymous source reports, decided to phone in to the station. "This is Roger Merriman of Cambridge," said one of them, "and I'd like to hear "I Don't want to Make History...
...great catastrophe was in the offing, after all. At 6:30, when the blast had been going forty-five minutes, a phone call to the Cambridge police evoked the information that the noise "was just some engineer's locomotive whistle over in Brighton that's got stuck." Promptly at 6:32 o'clock it apologetically stopped...
This impulse Premier Largo Caballero gave by fairly burning up the wires in a telephone conversation from Valencia with luckless General José Miaja who had been left behind to defend the capital. He rushed from the phone to issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice...