Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poles Apart. In Grand Rapids, after 22 days on high, flagpole sitter Marshall Jacobs climbed down from his perch several weeks ahead of schedule, explained that he wanted to talk to his bride, had been unable to get a phone...
Final impetus to put the drive over the top was received from a $500,00 check in the faculty mail and recent collections at the Widener desk. This latter sum was made possible through the efforts of an anonymous young woman who called Campbell by phone to ask "if there was anything she could do." She was subsequently put to work in Widener, where she collected...
George's phone in the White House would ring. Matt Connelly would inquire: "You think that fellow we were talking about this morning is all right to appoint?" Afternoons, George and Harry Vaughan and Harry Truman splashed around together in the White House swimming pool...
Back in the jail at Monroe, Deputy Sheriff Howard picked up the jangling phone. The voice on the other end was Loy Harrison's. "Mr. Howard," it said, "they just hijacked me and killed my niggers...
...joke in many places, simply because it is much easier to. sell to the "go-show" (airline lingo for the passenger without a reservation who takes a chance on getting aboard at the last minute in place of the "no-show") than to check a long waiting list by phone...