Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excellent examples of the work of Adolphe Appia, as Swiss pioneer, with Gordon Craig and Robert Edmond Jones in the use of the modern electric switchboard as successor to the scene painter...
...professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system of conducting, named it the Electrical Dirigent...
...quarantine. He finally manages to buy the rights to the radioscope, escape with his fiancée (Sari Maritza). Through all this rigmarole, W. C. Fields wanders with a frozen face, an unlighted cigar, an armful of bottles. He goes on a rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie Allen (who has a small role as nurse to the house doctor), drives his sedan down the fire escape, finally meanders off in his autogiro with Miss Joyce, whom he calls his little buttercup...
...empire ever carved out of these U. S. His hermitage it was originally, his place of retirement from the world, but each year he has made it more and more a capital whither he calls satraps, whence he sends commands. There he picks up a telephone -of his private switchboard, Hacienda 13 F 11-to talk, for perhaps an hour, to his editors in San Francisco or Chicago or Atlanta or Manhattan. There every day he dictates sheafs of orders-of-the-day beginning "The Chief says . . . ," signed "Willicombe" - Joe Willcombe his 6-ft. secretary of 17 years service...
...White House housekeeper and her husband, a lusty Irishman who used to sell whale oil, was to be custodian of the executive offices. Because she was so quick at detecting important voices, Miss Louise Hachmeister of Manhattan had been picked to take charge of the White House telephone switchboard. Mr. Roosevelt was "delighted" with the set-up for the Inaugural, as revealed by the first official copy of the program. Nothing remained but for him to go to Washington and take over the biggest job in the nation at the hardest period in its history...