Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, the phone rang in the Pentagon office of Navy Captain John G. Crommelin Jr. To each caller, blond, 46-year-old Captain Crommelin replied abruptly: "This telephone is tapped-you know that." The callers were fellow officers proffering him support. For John Crommelin had defiantly voiced what many of them thought, but had not dared to say: that the Navy's aviation was being destroyed under the guise of unification...
...program on which a prize "of money or a thing of value is awarded to any person whose selection is dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance." The FCC ruling was aimed directly at the flourishing telephone giveaways (where names are found by chance in phone books), but it would eliminate most others as well...
...calling card gave the visitor's home address as Rolyat Castle, Accra, on West Africa's Gold Coast; his phone numbers, 337 and 406. He was Nii Kwabena Bonne III, Osu (chief) of Alata Manche, Oyoko-hene (headman) of Techeman, and general president of the Ga Football Association (Alata Manche, Techeman and Ga are states on West Africa's Gold Coast). Last week the Osu flew some 3,000 miles to Britain, leaving twelve wives behind in his Accra palace. He landed at London Airport wearing red and green robes, a red hat spangled with jewels...
...want your husband and son to come and see me too," Neutra told Mrs. B. on the phone. "You know this house is to be for every one of you." After the first get-acquainted conference in the "lakeview room" of Neutra's own wide-windowed house (where the architect lounged against the pillows of a deep-seated couch and his visitors were made comfortable in plainly modern chairs of Neutra's own design), he asked all three members of the family to write him a detailed account of their activities for an entire week...
...Phone the warden's office," said Sheridan. "Have him tell my wife and daughter not to come back, that no more visitors will be admitted . . . When I last saw them they were smiling and I was smiling. That's the way I wanted it to be. No weeping stuff." Squint had one more request: he wanted his eyes given to New York's Eye-Bank (doctors said the corneas could still be used despite the damage caused by the caustic 41 years...