Word: phones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House gentleman what answered de phone up there got mad and said, 'Quit calling de President,' but I keeps on and finally gets...
...booed and heckled when she called for bids, forcing her to knock down the cake for $20. Even hotter than she was two months ago while dressing down a ladies' lecture club in Philadelphia (TIME, Dec. 11), Actress Le Gallienne threw down the gavel, stormed into the micro phone: "I came to Minneapolis proud of my Viking ancestry. I'm still proud of it. You can't be Vikings. . . . You are lousy Americans! Unpatriotic dullards!" The crowd howled and jeered as angry Actress Le Gallienne swept from the platform...
Unable to attract neighbors we spent a miserable evening out on the cold porch. Finally my wife who apparently was not as ill as I managed to reach the phone and telephoned a doctor. He soon came with a supply of Methylene Blue which is a newly discovered remedy for this poisoning heretofore unremediable. He had learned of this discovery through reading TIME, and admitted this to me since I also had read of this cure (TIME...
...police headquarters-it's in the phone book...
...Urschel said, in substance, that after the kidnappers left with her husband and Mr. Jarrett, who with his wife were dinner and bridge guests, she went upstairs and phoned the Federal officers. After they arrived, a long distance phone call was made to Mr. Hoover at Washington and report was made to him of the kidnapping. She said she did this because "that afternoon, we had read in TIME that this was the thing to do in case of a kidnapping...