Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George C. Hoover, attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission, cousin of the President-Elect, was knocked down last week in Washington by an automobile driven by Fannie P. Dial, daughter of onetime Senator Nathaniel Barksdale Dial of South Carolina. Cousin Hoover's injuries were a fractured leg, a bruised body. Miss Dial picked him up, put him in her car, drove to a hospital. No charge was made against...
That incomparably prolific and reliable writer of detective stories, J. F. Fletcher, publishes four stories simultaneously, all highly readable: The Ransom for London (Dial, $2) is scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention...
...LAST SEPTEMBER-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press...
...INTIMATE LIFE OF THE LAST TZARINA-Princess Catherine Radziwill- Dial Press...
...footlight effect. Instead of a rising curtain, Speaker Longworth, with jaunty step, mounted the rostrum, struck his gavel twice upon the block and called above the din: "The House will be in order." Opposite him the hands of the big gilt clock exactly met at the top of the dial...