Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the outbound steamship Republic was rammed in a heavy fog off Nantucket by the inbound Italian immigrant ship Florida. Before the Republic sank, her passengers were transferred to the badly damaged Florida, then to the Baltic, and brought back to New York. It was the first time that wireless was used [by the Republic] to bring help to a stricken ship. I am 80 years old. My husband and I were on the Republic, bound for a two-month honeymoon in Italy when the tragedy occurred...
...Street. Unlike the Titanic story, when Times editors, working with scattered wireless reports, scooped the world, there were no great news beats this time. At 12:34 a.m. Associated Press sent out the first bulletin, and the first radio bulletins followed soon after with the barest facts. By 2:30 a.m. every Manhattan morning paper-the Times, the Herald Tribune, the News, the Mirror-was on the street with bulletins and sketchy stories. The A.P. alone had 35 men on the story by 7 a.m., wirephotoed its first aerial pictures of the stricken ships by 8:35 a.m., fully...
Despite this contribution of the state of Tennessee to the culture of Africa, even the restrained British colonials of the area, long given to understatement, describe CABS as a "remarkable wireless indeed." It is probably the only radio station in a completely white-run land that broadcasts almost exclusively to blacks. It began as a peanut-whistle transmitter during the war to get military news around the colony. After the war it was continued in the hope of providing a link between the government and its millions of Negro subjects...
...tags that set him apart are minor-"the games of real tennis and piquet, an aversion to high tea, having one's cards engraved (not printed) and, in some cases, a dislike of certain comparatively modern inventions such as the telephone, the cinema and the wireless." But in general, added Ross, the best way to tell the U person is by his way of speaking...
...appropriate expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank you" is as non-U as saying ill, mirror, notepaper, radio, serviette, toilet-paper, wealthy and lounges for the U words sick, lookingglass, writing paper, wireless, table-napkin, lavatory-paper, rich and halls. The U reply...