Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give your name when you phone (she's not psychic...
...known at the CRIMSON office that 'Mr. Ernst" was an impostor. In addition, full details of the phone conversation in which Lampy reneged on its smear of Miss Ernst are in the CRIMSON's possession...
Answering an anonymous phone call last week, London police visited the James home. In the dining room they found the professor, a chubby, moon-faced man with thinning grey hair and bushy black eyebrows, wandering dazedly. On his cuffs and under his fingernails were bloodstains. In the bedroom lay the body of his wife, her head bashed in and innumerable stab wounds in her body. They also found a hammer, poker and large carving fork...
Jock, son of a British Army captain in India, was sitting in police headquarters one day in 1898 when four bombs went off: signal that the Spanish-American War had begun. Said Jock: "In a few minutes the phone will ring and it'll be Tarbell telling me that I'm to cover the war." In a few minutes the phone rang. It was Tarbell telling him to cover...
...seriously. Fortnight ago, Captain Patterson hailed a young couple in The Bronx, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hamton, who tried lactic acid and baking soda douches, and got what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give no specific instructions for human beings. Captain Patterson couldn't be sure that the Hamtons hadn't been plain lucky...