Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin fancy was fired. Swiftly he put aside his other mistresses,* enthroned Claretta ina resident villa linked by private phone to the Palazzo Venezia. The new favorite flaunted her power. She managed the Duce's fan mail, dragged him on shopping tours, hired & fired officeholders in what Corriere della Sera called the manner of a "second-rate Maintenon," responsible for the "intellectual degradation of her passionate friend...
...when the deadline came last week, Dr. Pezet received a phone call from his chauffeur. The plot had leaked. Police came to take him away. Said he calmly: his revolt was not against the constituted authority, since that authority was himself. Pudgy, earnest José Pezet declared that not a drop of blood would have been spilled. He had even provided a nurse to accompany the conspirators to the Presidential Palace, lest Señora de la Guardia faint...
About 7 p.m. Hudson Randall was in Milligan's drug store on Dansville's Main Street, talking about the wreck over a malted, when the phone rang. Druggist E. T. Milligan answered. The man on the other end of the line was Pete Ellis, night rewrite man for the United Press in New York...
This week, unable longer to cope with mail, phone calls and visitors seeking the great designer, Editor Cousins made a clean breast of it. Said he: "If the incident results in a single hat that looks like a hat, Old Gus will not have died or lied in vain...
...Icelandic family that settled in Pennsylvania, originally had a strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe to study the phenomenon of sunburn, with two chemists to help. He ended up with the formula for Skol, brought it back to the U.S. But his family took a low view of it all, so George...