telephone directory

Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.

To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.

“We called it the telephone directory,” his widow, Eda, told me.

They stuffed the leaflets into stamped envelopes and addressed the envelopes with names chosen randomly from telephone directories.

Back when telephone directories were common, the saying was “I’d listen to this narrator read the phone book.”