Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they did, it was never long before someone slipped into a phone booth and called Captain Dietrich Niebuhr, naval attache of the German Embassy. "My cousin is on the Gneisenau" he would say, and the clever captain would know he was talking to an agent with valuable information. When the merchant ships put to sea they ran into Nazi U-boats with uncanny regularity. Many were sunk. Napp received 400 pesos a month and expense money, and he earned his pay many times over...
Long retired from parish work, he sits all day in his cramped flat off Manhattan's Times Square. In the last 20 months, 140,000 people, simply by dialing his phone number (Circle 6-6483), have heard Mr. Hall preach a sermon...
...subscriber called the Herald Tribune to complain. Told about the strike, he asked to have the comic strip Mr. & Mrs, read to him over the phone. A Tribune man obliged...
When there's a phone call for a girl in a Radcliffe dorm, the maid downstairs rings a buzzer in that girl's room, sending her to the phone on her own floor. But usually they don't trust the buzzer, and almost anyone is apt to rush to the phone. They yell "Oh hell!" when you ask for someone else. If men don't call and there's not too much work to be done the ladies often drop outside for a coke and tomato and lettuce, or even (oh, not often!) a little farther for a daiquiri...
...press dispatches now have to be presented to Propaganda Ministry censors an hour before being telephoned (all foreign correspondents in Berlin use the phone exclusively for sending dispatches...