Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last day, Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley announced the two big winners: Barbara Wolff, 17, of New York, and 15-year-old Andrew Kende of Evanston, Ill. As soon as she heard the news, Barbara, flushed and fluttery, rushed to a phone to tell her father. A quiet girl with shoulder-long hair, she spends her time at home studying the nonhereditary mutations of the fruit fly. Her father, a school principal in New York City, had already heard the news on the radio. Cried he into the phone: "Half the neighborhood's drunk already...
...typical American family ("named Kinsey, of course") that wanted to shield young Kingsblood, 11, a comic fan, from "stories of murder, crime, violence and S-E-X." Before the Kinseys were through, said Capp, they had thrown out Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare and everything but the phone book. Cracked Capp: "Mr. Brown is sorry that Li'I Abner isn't Huckleberry Finn. I'm sorry that Mr. Brown isn't George Jean Nathan...
...tempered by absent-minded civility. Until a lot of newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...
...Student 'phone-seekers will get the busy signal for some time to come, it was learned last night, as Cambridge dial officials announced that no new instruments can be installed in College rooms for at least another five months...
...words left his mouth, the police call box rang. The sergeant took the phone, and policemen nutraculousy began to appear from doorways all the way down Mt. Auburn Street. A squad of six collected and tramped off to quell a piot in a local all-night hamburg emporium...