Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phone call providentially interrupted what threatened to be a lengthy and irrelevant tale. Bertie came back shaking his head. "Speaking of Jeeves," he said. "That was Jeeves himself. He just heard the news. Seemed to take it pretty hard. Y'know," said Bertie, in an awed, incredulous tone, "I believe the poor old blighter was squiffed...
...wave of frustration swept Lowell House after the Spring Formal Friday night resulting in the greatest library job since Snooperman ran rampant last spring. Not until night watchman Bill Graney received an anonymous phone call last evening was the picture of President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, ordinarily over the fireplace, found in the closet of an unnamed tutor...
...Phone calls to Cinemactress Rita Hayworth's house since suit for her divorce from Oilman Edward C. Judson (TIME, March 9) were reported to have rocketed so high that she finally had to have the telephone taken...
Fort Dix's nearness to New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas encourages departing soldiers to telephone last goodbys to friends and families. Some of them undoubtedly let slip the place and time of their departure. Last week Dix's public phone booths bore a terse legend: "Temporarily out of order, by order...
...Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...