Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florida. The storm whirled northwestward, grazed Santo Domingo, isolated the Bahamas, cut off all wireless communication. Persons in Florida remembered the hurricane of 1926 and were not a little timorous. They sought shelter. The gale struck 80 miles of Florida coast between Jupiter Inlet and Miami, a region which includes Palm Beach. Reports from this area were fragmentary, telephone and telegraph service was interrupted. But it seemed that the hurricane had diminished in violence during its passage from Porto Rico. Nineteen, at last report, were dead on the East coast of Florida. President Coolidge, alarmed, called on nation...
...Eskimo saw a smoke signal across the fjord near Mount Evans, Greenland. Two men went out in a motor boat to investigate. With a flashlight they signaled back: "Hassell safe." Two minutes later the New York Times received the news by wireless. It was one of the fastest handled and most complete scoops in the history of journalism...
Ernest Henry Schelling, children's musician, suddenly cabled from Celigny, Switzerland, that he would play a wedding march over the trans-Atlantic wireless telephone to Manchester, Mass., when Anne Pullen Dennett, a friend's daughter, was being married. Her parents, prudent, employed John Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, to play Mendelssohn's march right at the wedding, clearly and on time. Later the Schelling performance crackled from a loud speaker...
...perhaps with the hope that some day a Nominee's baby-patting, pipe-smoking and flycasting will not have to be overseen by newsgatherers clutching shorthand pads and cinema cranks. Perhaps, some day, contact between the People and their servants can be maintained directly, by colored-wireless-television or something. Then, at scheduled moments during the day or week, the Nominee can simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face-to-face and mouth-to-ear with the whole electorate, can simply say: "Good morning, everybody...
...extraordinarily cunning, excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919-21) expert for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., would have devised a code similar in size to the Commercial Cable Code, charge about $1,000 for 1,000 copies...