Word: phones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present system of telephone communication is especially unsatisfactory in buildings otherwise as modern as the new Houses. The resident of Lowell, Eliot, or Dunster, who has not a private telephone, can be reached only by telegram; he cannot make calls except by using the pay-phones near the Common Rooms. In the older buildings of Kirkland, Winthrop, and Leverett, the situation, though not ideal, is somewhat better. The pay-phone in each entry provides the convenience of limited use to students who cannot afford a private line. Randolph Hall has a still more convenient arrangement: all suites are provided with...
...Five planes brought dozens of machine gats from Chicago Friday to combat The Town's Capone. . . . Local banditti have made one hotel a virtual arsenal and several hotspots are ditto because Master Coll is giving them the headache. One of the better Robin Hoods has a private phone in his cell...
Karl K. Kitchen, newspaper colyumist (New York Sun) last week reported that "a few nights ago one of the most eminent physicians in New York received a tel phone message to hurry over to a home in the upper Eighties, off Park Avenue." The physician "was conducted upstairs to a bathroom on the third floor where a middle-aged woman wrapped in bath towels was seated" on what polite Kolyumist Kitchen called "a window sill, part of the low window having been converted into a seat." Situation: the sill had been freshly painted; the lady was stuck, to move caused...
...private attempt to assemble a phone directory of the men in the Houses is well enough in so far as it goes. The great bulk of the students in the graduate schools, and the freshmen in the college are excluded, however. The University has the facilities and the records to provide a complete Directory that will remove this cause of irritation, and rescue the students from tardy information service of the phone company...
Apartment de luxe (3 rooms), unique and beautiful style of decorations not to be seen in any other apartment house; real Cinderella dream and the kitchen done most artistically: fit for fairies to cook in. ... Phone Mr. Rose, EStabrook...