Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frame?" quavered a husky voice on a London telephone one night last week. "I'm a trotter. I need your help." The stocky, mild man at the other end of the line nodded comprehendingly. "All right," he said into the phone, "Where can we meet?" The unknown voice named a time and a place...
...Sidney Frame, physiotherapist, hung up, took a moment to jot down the information on a slip of paper and returned to an arthritic patient in the next room. The following afternoon he pulled up his creaking Rover 10 sedan around the corner from Wembley Park underground station and waited. Some 20 minutes later, a man stared into the car and in the same husky voice that the physiotherapist had heard over the phone asked again, "Mr. Frame?" "Yes, indeed," answered Frame cheerily, holding the car door open...
That night, after a long drive and a long talk with the husky-voiced stranger, Sidney Frame had a telephone call of his own to make. "I've got another chappie for you," he told a friend in the special investigation branch of army headquarters. The words meant that Sidney Frame, "the trotters' friend," had just persuaded one more of the 7,000-odd deserters still missing from the British armed services to give himself up. "Sometimes I think he's balmy to do all this," said Mrs. Frame, "but then, I suppose every man must have...
Relaxed in a wooden armchair at Chartwell, his 300-acre Kentish estate, Winston Churchill chewed his ubiquitous cigar and watched his tractors at work, while Anthony Eden, No. 2 man of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, carefully arranged his well-tailored frame on the grass beside his host...
With the groundwork laid for schizophrenia, or at feast amnesia, the plot switches to Gaslight: Claudette, it turns out, is the victim of an elaborate frame-up. After using a lot of fancy psychiatric jargon in analyzing the heroine's condition, the script finally reveals the villain as melodrama's oldfashioned "mad fiend." Still unsolved: Who framed Actress Colbert into the role...