Word: wired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only as a competitor of Radio Corp. and Mackay Co. did Universal Wireless make its dramatic appearance. Such established systems as Western Union and Postal Telegraph must watch this rising communications company. Said Dr. John Nathonsohn, Manhattan representative of Universal Wireless, naively: "We are not proposing to undercut the wire companies. But we intend to offer a 12-word message instead of a 10-word one at the same rate now being charged for the shorter one by the telegraph companies...
Elected. Walter Sherman Gifford. President of the American Tel. & Tel. Co.. and Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., son of John Pierpont Morgan; to be Directors of the U. S. Steel Corp., succeeding the late William Pendleton Palmer, onetime President of the American Steel & Wire Co., and John Shaffer Phipps...
Sign of the Leopard. "I cannot disturb Mr. Wallace-he has just started a new play." With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying...
...monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover of the wind screaming through ice-ribbed pines he snapped the twanging wires. Three days later he climbed stiff and jolt-bruised from his living coffin, and stumbled into the forests of-Prussia? Russia? Poland...
...latest models require the very pink of passengerhood. Only the jolliest, most debonair of present-day gallants could fittingly adorn the La Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier. Students of the Hals painting have provided it with hood and cowl of Wissahickon green; lower body, fenders and gear of deep maroon; wire wheels, rear deck and body above moulding of Talina brown; roof and rear quarters of tan Burbank silk mohair; mouldings of gold leaf...