The trip could be made by train-four hours to Johannesburg, five more to Boskuil-but old Pik felt that with such an impressive stone, he ought to travel-by private auto, so with great difficulty, because he hated telephones, he called his backer in Johannesburg: , We got the biggest diamond in my life.

Always hated telephones, too.

He hates telephones and never uses them unless he has to.

Referred to as "Scotland's most picturesque Duke", Campbell hated telephones and motor cars and would indulge in eccentric behaviour, including greeting tourists with recitals from Italian operas.

"I hate telephones," she said.

I hate telephones.

Hated government, hated lawyers, hated civil servants, hated preachers, hated automobiles, public schools, and telephones, was contemptuous of most editors, most writers, most professors, most of almost anything.