Word: pugh
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...Notice for first time red sign right of grilled counter that names each day's managers. Today's: Kay D'Andria and Ethel Pugh...
...speech was beautiful," said Joan E. Pugh, mother of Benjamin G. Steinberg '97. "It moved me to tears. Both his message to parents as a father and to students made his message a universal...
Unfortunately, the secondary source relied on by Tucker is in error. The case, Pugh v. City and Suburban Telephone Association (9 WL Bull 104) was decided by an Ohio District Court. Further, although Tucker's description of the case in factually correct, none of the quotations he cites appear in the actual text of the case. --Jol Silversmith...
Restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself. In 1883, a New York District Court upheld a telephone company's rule prohibiting the use of "improper or vulgar" language on its lines. Apparently, a Mr. Pugh had used the word "damn" in a phone conversation, and his service was discontinued. Pugh challenged the company in court but the judge ruled against him: "The telephone," wrote the judge, "reaches into many family circles. It must be remembered that it is possible, from the peculiar arrangement of the instrument, to have a communication that...
AREN'T WE GLAD WE WEREN'T AROUND TO be bitten by some of the strange ancient creatures described in your story? HENRY C. PUGH Norfolk, Virginia...