Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particular imminent-danger warning I was on the tower and over a flying bomb came. She missed and fell and I thought, "Christ, right smack on Hillford Garden,"-that's where we live. So when the imminent passed I went to the gate and got on the phone to a neighbor and there was no answer. Just then a lorry pulled in and the driver said: "Don't worry, Mate. I hear it was smack on the Three Fiddlers." That's the local pub -a good 300 yards away from my place...
...China as in England, General LeMay will be insistent on hard precise work by pilots and mechanics, will set men back coldly and impersonally if they fail. In an attack on Germany months ago, LeMay's ball-turret gunner called him on the inter phone to announce that his guns (which should have been readied on the ground) would not fire. Replied Pilot LeMay coolly from up front: "You're going to look pretty silly when the 1905 start coming...
...surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets are. If he tries to phone for help he will get nothing but a dull, buzzing noise...
...Lately phone calls to certain junior officers with excellent taste have provided a very convenient contact for midshipmen who hold the line, while the correct party in leisurely hunted down. Reports are that acquaintances made thereby have proved more satisfactory to both parties...
...Master's Voice. In Lafayette, Ind.. Police Sergeant Cecil Baker, acting on a complaint that a strange dog would not get out of a car, recognized the dog, pulled him out, phoned his owner, Alvin Fay. Said Mr. Fay: "Put the dog on the phone and I'll talk to him." The Sergeant put the dog on the phone, overheard Fay say: "What are you doing up there, Pat? Get right on home." Pat went right on home...