Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tongue-Tied. In Berkeley, Calif., police heard over the phone a feeble, gagged "Help!", traced the call, rushed to the address, unhooked Mrs. Gertrude Gumbs's tongue from under her lower plate...
...Stuff. In Columbus, Ohio, Saloonkeeper Sam Barkan cheerfully opened up after hours to let a wide-eyed little girl use the phone, forked over $125 to her companions: two gunmen...
...sacks. Not Danny. Friends who telephone his Hollywood home or his twelve-room Park Avenue apartment often hear the answering voice of a Japanese houseboy, an Italian cook, a Negro valet, an English butler or a Russian piano teacher, patiently wait for Danny to call himself to the phone...
Allison's coworker, Italian-born, Nobel-Prizeman Enrico Fermi, was in the same fix. Of him a colleague said: "He's a tougher character and good at saying no. He refused to do administrative work. He doesn't have a phone and refused to have a secretary. General Groves hates my guts. But he hates Fermi's guts worse...
Early Buzzards. In Norwood, Ohio, within 24 hours after Lee Dunn Jr. confessed to strangling his wife, police got five phone inquiries about renting the strangler's house...