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phone book

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Origin of phone book1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Mostly, it was just very boring, an opinion seemingly shared by Mark Wahlberg, who sounded like he was reading out of the phone book during his prayers.

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No reading from the phone book or "Green Eggs and Ham."

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While living on his mom’s couch, a casting director called after looking his name up in a phone book.

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Keaton said he might have picked his stage name out of a phone book at the start of his career.

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There were photos stashed everywhere, many tucked into the stacks of Yellow Pages phone books in Wally’s bedroom closet, warped and stained from water damage.

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