Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needed his help badly. Mungkee had just come home from the hospital, where she had had an operation performed. The bandages seemed to hurt her and, foolishly, I took them off. Well, she was in a dreadful condition, and I was simply frantic. So I called Leonard on the phone...
...Dial 911, wait for the dial tone, then dial nine, hang up, and wait for the phone to ring." Such are the instructions from a meddlesome student who has discovered in the new telephone system a method of revenge for the petty persecutions of human operators...
...campaign room, a dozen precinct captains swarm around the phone. Each wears a round badge, patriotically decorated in red, white, and blue, also with green, yellow, and purple, thrown in to make it attractive. An enormously fat bull-dog with a hide that was once white, rolls on the floor in the havoc of cigar-butts, torn posters, and dirt. He slouches away from one of the campaign managers. He upsets the spittoon. "Jesus, Curley, watch it!" one of the cigar-chewers admonishes...
...second phone call brought a Johnsonian answer: "Please don't call on this wire again on official business. The whole village is listening...
...Woodrow Wilson was a gallant lover, an ardent wooer. His anxiety to make a good impression was delightful. He seemed no more certain of success than any other man might and he exhausted all the tricks of this old trade. . . . The President had a private tele phone wire run from his bedroom to Mrs. Gait's house. He wrote her long letters. . . . The Library of the White House not supplying him with sufficient quotations, he called on the Library of Congress for poetic phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when...