Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safe Play. The church board, by a vote of 28 to 9, approved the invitation. But some of the congregation's embittered minority, which includes both retired Northerners and native-born Southerners, helped to stir up the community. Anonymous midnight phone calls threatened Douds with violence. A whispering campaign was started to the effect that both he and Graham were Communists. Fiery crosses began to blaze-two on the church lawn and one before the home of Baptist Minister Graham...
High Hat. When Fred Levy, a brash young securities salesman, took over Blum's in 1934 (he had married a granddaughter of the late Simon Blum, the founder), the company was $26,000 in debt, and facing bankruptcy. The first thing Levy did was phone his customers and ask: "What's wrong with Blum's?" They told him Blum's had been turning out the same old candy since Simon Blum set up shop in 1892, and they were tired...
...them, and he decided to take on Apley too. Most of his friends thought it was a mistake and few besides his publisher, the late Alfred McIntyre of Little, Brown, encouraged him. When it won him the Pulitzer Prize, the first thing he did was to get on the phone and rib the people who had told him to stick to magazine fiction...
...wire recorder, the "Tele-Magnet," which will answer the telephone when no one is home. As Mohawk's President George F. Ryan explained it, when he leaves the house (or office), the gadget's owner puts his cradle-type telephone on the machine. When the phone rings, a mechanism lifts the receiver and turns on a phonograph record. The owner's own recorded voice announces that he is out, asks the caller to leave his message at the sound of a chime. When the owner returns, a meter tells him how many calls have come...
...recent meeting of Government 155b Associate Professor Cherington announced to the members of the course the name, address, and phone number of the chairman of the local chapter of Plan E for Boston League, known to some as the Beat-Curley-By-All-and-Any-Means-Cofraternity. He urged them to communicate with her for voluntary work in furtherance of the Great Cause. Plan E is not desired on its merits but as a means of getting rid of Curley. A few sarcastic remarks from the high throne of academic superiority disposed of Mr. Curley, and the rest...