Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...doesn't say hello to you; he just looks up from his desk, nails you with a stare and listens," one SACman says. "You begin talking and you don't hear a reply-all you hear is your own voice. Then, when you are in mid-sentence he takes the pipe out of his mouth and says, 'Get to the point.' A minute or two later: 'You're straying from the point. Don't waste my time. Come back when you've got this thing in hand...
Luscious Patricia Morison, who was on her uppers in filmdom before she romped and trilled through the Broadway smash Kiss Me, Kate, noted a change in the California climate: "A week or so ago when I sang at the Hollywood Bowl . . . people who used to nod and say 'Hello, Pat' . . . came dashing backstage and threw their arms around me, shouting 'Dahling, you were wonderful...
...When I see you on the street," President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked his Columbia University students, "will you please say 'hello'-because some people who don't belong to the university occasionally pass me on 116th Street and they think I'm crazy when I say hello...
...Negro vote: "The niggers are a little disgusted. They thought they were going to get equality and now they have found out they are not. Now you have to pay the preachers to get 'em out." That wasn't worth the expense, Roy figured. The phone rang. "Hello, Mr. Leonard," said Roy. "What's the situation down there...
...husky, caressing voice murmurs: "Hello, muffin, this is your lonesome gal. How are you tonight, baby? Your lonesome gal loves you better than anybody in the world, just remember that . . ." These fudgelike endearments, dripping from U.S. radios every weekday night, cause chest flutterings and glassy stares in cross-country truck-and-trailer rigs, diners, Army barracks and teen-age bedrooms from El Pasp to Boston...