Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When 30 phone calls-to the oil company, to the police, to the board of health, to the Mayor's office-and two personal trips to the authorities failed to produce oil to heat his Queens Village, N.Y. home, Herman Steinmetz, 78, an architectural sculptor, hanged himself...
Like other types of mental patients, alcoholics are generally self-centered and defiant. During drinking bouts especially, they develop expansive egos and large ideas, are given to a well-recognized disease known as "telephonitis," i.e., an irresistible itch to make long-distance phone calls, particularly to their psychiatrists (one well-heeled alcoholic of Tiebout's acquaintance runs up phone bills of $400 a month...
...Ranch. As he says: "I have to. The bigger a thing is, the easier it is to lose!" On the ranch, he is awakened at 6 a.m. by the traditional King Ranch "good morning"-a cup of coffee brought to his bed. By 7 a.m. he has talked by phone to the foremen of the ranch's various divisions. By 9 a.m. he is usually charging over the prairie in his stripped-down Ford hunting car to whichever herd is being "worked" (rounded up, branded, culled for shipment, etc.) that...
Telephone numbers of over 2,300 students, plus listings for all Houses, clubs, and nearby women's colleges, will appear in the new CRIMSON phone directory on sale today...
...have generally been able to give students a preference in the allocation of telephones," stated another member of the company's business office. "Special care has been given to returning service men, who were phone owners before enlisting, provided that they applied to have their instruments back before two years had elapsed from their time of separation...