Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stalked away. All told, Hughes shot 450,000 feet of film (the complete picture: 10,200 feet). On the set, where shooting took place mostly at night (to allow Hughes to design planes for Henry J. Kaiser by day), he was usually unshaven, always unpredictable. He would phone his assistants at home at all hours and announce: "This is Mr. Hoyt." Often there would follow a long silence, broken finally when Hughes would bark briskly: "I just thought of something; I'll call you back later...
...ration book for a company car was close to running out, irascible Carl asked for a C book. The ration board asked him to fill out a new application form. That request so empurpled the Daubendiek temper that for two hours on the night of Dec. 15 no Jefferson phone subscriber could get anything out of his instrument except a voice which said, variously, "Daubendiek speaking; no gas, no calls; speak to the rationing board" or "The service is kind of punk -just like the gasoline situation." One subscriber tore his phone from the wall by the roots for emotional...
Fibber McGee and Veronica Lake, anonymous Vassarettes and old Harvard grads--all of them managed to get mixed up in the stream of unsuccessful attempts to get that beer. But the most surprising thing about yesterday afternoon's many phone calls was the female preponderance...
Amos 'n' Andy hit their peak in 1931 when even newspapers found it good business to carry daily accounts of Amos' trial for murder. Albert Lasker, then Lord & Thomas advertising head, finally had to phone the pair to "get Amos out of that spot fast." The awful nationwide suspense was beginning to tell. The strain had become too great for thousands of parent & teacher groups...
...telephoned WINX and got the announcer himself on the phone. This was not very satisfactory. So Grynwich beefed heavily to WINX's program director, Sam Lawder. Lawder replied that if Grynwich thought he could do any better himself, he should come in and try. Grynwich marched to the station. Last week the Sunday Symphony Hour went off without a hitch. The slow, deliberate, fairly rich voice of the announcer, who was very right about his musical lore, belonged to Announcer William (Grynwich) Grayson...