Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointments should be made in advance at 15 Holyoke Street or through the University switchboard. There is no extra charge...
Censors were troubled, too, over the activities of a procuress (Junie Astor) who conducts her activities from the switchboard of the club. They finally suffered her to remain, after carefully editing the careers of the two girls she ensnares. The Sapphic inferences were noted in the character played by beauteous Else Argall, Author Deval's wife and a newcomer to cinema. Censorship deleted her best scene, which shows her successfully fighting the urge to join the girl of her desire. Considered fit for Manhattan cinemagoers was the shot in which she poisons the procuress-telephone operator. Playwright-Director Deval...
Stepping to the switchboard, Mr. Scott announced, "And now I'll show you the . . ." but nothing happened although he had manipulated a dozen switches and plugs. "Hmmm," said Mr. Scott. He revealed that his invention would blow a fuse under certain complex electrical conditions. "Yes, that's one of Matilda's idiosyncrasies," he remarked...
...College psychology instructor named Walter Vogt, whose ticket was signed "Alpha Omega." When reporters arrived to congratulate him on his good fortune, Psychologist Vogt ran upstairs, crawled out on a fire escape, announced he was going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket "Happy Easter." Said Farmer Unseld: "Chickens...
...Lord Cottenham continued, "I shrugged myself more comfortably into position behind the wheel and cast about little searching glances under the scuttle, as one does when familiarizing oneself with the instrument layout and control locations of a new model. . . . I saw the red telltale bulb glow on the ignition switchboard. . . . The big engine had hesitated- 'hunted' we call it-for a second or two, whether because my cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel Harker afterwards said, because of a fleeting, almost intangible carburation mood ... I do not know...