Word: range
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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...
...when the telephone rang in the midst of the uproar, he calmly picked up the receiver. The man on the other end of the wire, a fast thinking Camden newspaperman named Philip Buxton, said: "I'm a friend . . . how many have you killed...
...time, visitors who rang the bell at the door of Zöppritzstrasse No. 46 in the little Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen heard a recorded voice boom through a speaking tube: "Dr. Strauss is not at home . . . Dr. Strauss is not at home." After awhile, when even tall (6 ft. 3 in.), ruddy-faced Dr. Strauss had tired of his crusty prank, visitors were merely asked by a servant to state their business. In most cases they were turned away. Last week, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a visitor called who would not be denied. Death came to Richard Strauss...
...ship's bell outside Cunningham's Oyster Bar on Mayfair's Curzon Street clanged brassily last week for the opening of the oyster season, but it rang for few Britons. In the days of Charles Dickens oysters cost a penny a dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
...Hands. Producers also moaned about the scarcity of good scripts. It was an old lament, but this time it rang true. Many established playwrights seemed to be between plays. Of shows hopefully announced for production so far, only a handful involved old hands: Terence Rattigan's Double Bill (a London import); a Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill dramatization of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven...