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Word: phones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guaranteed.! Analyze it, mister! I esk you personally to analyze it! We call this our 'ladies' shop'! Four more we got in New York, and on Broadway one silver and black! Deliver anything anytime from 8 a. m. to 2 a. m. Just phone Murray Hill 7522 and ask for Mack. You see this cherry brandy?"-holding up a large bottle in which floated four cherries-"That stuff is 90 proof, ninetee proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In God We Trust | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...consider that college students go to bed at twelve o'clock. Telephone service is as necessary after that hour as before. For the man who has ever been taken ill in the middle of the night and been obliged to reel to the nearest public phone to call a doctor, no further argument is necessary. Then the University, with its usual business acumen and perspicacity, charges for ordinary calls in these buildings on a time basis. The shock of this discovery which comes with the first phone bill is nearly as great to the nervous system as to the bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY 3360 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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