Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy about the program they won't even get up to answer the phone...
...Schroeder is apt to be moody, quick to fly off the handle. Once, on an impulse, he wrote a blistering letter to good-natured Alrick Man (non-playing captain of this year's Davis Cup team); as soon as he cooled off, Ted was on the long-distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced the driver to a halt, and told...
...afternoon newspaper Diario da Nolle sent a cub reporter to cover the sitting. He got a red-hot scoop. At 2:25 p.m., he spotted a Senator walking toward a desk halfway back on the left in the Chamber. That, was all he needed. The cub raced for a phone, gave the flash to his office: "Prestes is in the Senate...
Russians, inveterate wire tappers at home, have taken their listening-in habits to Western Europe. "See that dial phone?" said a harassed official at the U.S. Legation in Vienna last week. "It's a direct outside line, but I can't get a single number on it the first time I dial. The second time I invariably get right through. The first dialing serves to alert a monitor. He then sees to it that I get good service while he listens...
There had been signs that George Bernard Shaw was mellowing in his lonesome latter years. Lately, when newsmen had rung up his Ayot St. Lawrence home,, the phone was answered immediately, as though he had been waiting beside it for someone to call. And long after he had answered reporters' questions, he would prattle on as though he pined for conversation...