"Ebonite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have said, the telephone is installed. The instrument is fashioned in a severe style (receiver and mouth-piece mounted on an ebonite column of the Roman Doric Order), and it stands for all to see as a symbol that in the seclusion of our offices we are in touch with the world at large. But as a symbol only it must remain, for the voices of the outer world that call us up as they search for other friends ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, February 25th, 1920 • Various |
