Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Expenses Council Office Expenses Total $294.65 Supplies: Printing $151.63 Gen. Supplies 30.00 Carbons 1.75 File Cases 62.99 Phone, buzzer, inst. 10.68 257.05 Secretary 37.60 $294.65 Scholarships 990.00 Class Album 100.00 Charities 425.00 Bank Charges (Bad checks, improperly made out, etc.) 22.25 Phillips Brooks House 2000.00 Savings Account in Cambridge Savings Bank 1000.00 $4831.90 Present Bank Balance (Camb. Trust...
Colonel Apted, though, has been favored by more attention. He has eight letters, asking him for the supposedly unwanted kitten, and his secretary is already showing definite signs of wear from answering "innumerable" phone calls...
Called to the phone from his 44th birthday dinner, little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria heard the voice of an old friend, Bulgarian-born Locomotive Engineer Gus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. Mr. Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...
...talk with apes, an enterprising Toronto Star reporter went out to the Riverdale Zoo, had a keeper install a handset telephone in the cage of chimpanzees George & Josephine, put through a long distance call to Castang's Chicago hotel. With a "semi-scream," Castang summoned Josephine to the phone. At his whimpering mimicry of the chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George. George cursed Castang. Castang, with...
...Queer feeling Virginia had when I phoned her during an air raid and announced that I was at St. Marie's hospital. I had visited there to contact and help to evacuate two Catholic sisters. They left here on the President Hoover. I took them to the Customs Jetty. Their departure was heralded by a Chinese plane and Japanese antiaircraft fire. Virginia today received a phone call from one of the remaining American sisters who stated that the evacuees had left for the States from Manila on the President Hoover which you know was bombed. One of the sisters...