Word: wired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Mohawk Business Machines Corp. last week unveiled a new wire recorder, the "Tele-Magnet," which will answer the telephone when no one is home. As Mohawk's President George F. Ryan explained it, when he leaves the house (or office), the gadget's owner puts his cradle-type telephone on the machine. When the phone rings, a mechanism lifts the receiver and turns on a phonograph record. The owner's own recorded voice announces that he is out, asks the caller to leave his message at the sound of a chime. When the owner...
Pacts & Punditry. During the war, when cable desks were more important than city desks, the tabs had also tended to pass up the "LIVE WIRE KILLS CHILD IN HOUSE HEXED BY WOE" for pacts, problems and punditry. Last week there were signs that the tabloids were reverting to type. They had sensed-more quickly than other U.S. papers-that the "news" and the public taste in news might be changing. (In England it was London's feature-packed Daily Mirror that had profited most from the lifting of newsprint controls...
Corporal Charlie Shuttleworth is grinding his teeth with anguish over his wife ("the cow!") who "jacked me in for a civvy"; Major Maddison is exulting as his platoon-in-training comes crashing through a barbed-wire obstacle with blood running from their face scratches (and he furtively pins a putative medal to his chest in the secrecy of his room); Colonel Pothecary, a plain man, stumbles warmheartedly through his announcement of the invasion: "Well, my lads. This is it. At last. You know, I'm damned if I know what to say to you . . . Eat when...
When the last barbed wire was pulled away the attackers crowded up the front steps, and finally forced the 'Poonsters indoors without their banner, ending the whole affair...
...official proceedings, broadcast over the 'Poon's public address system, were somewhat marred by rival CRIMSON loudspeakers established in adjoining Adams and Lowell rooms. Later, after the members of the newly-formed "State of Lampoon" had retired behind their barbed wire and sawdust sack fortifications, these barricades were breached by a determined charge, which reached the front door of the building and obtained half of the "State of Lampoon" banner before the cessation of hostilities...