Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fair Stratagem. Telephone Operator Borissova in "Town N" was said by the Russians to have plugged in a call from a stranger in a phone booth. The stranger asked the location of some "communication enterprises." She said: "One moment please; I'll look up the information." She called the militia, who went to the booth, found a Nazi parachutist...
After a hard day, the doctor is comfortably settled with pipe & slippers-and the telephone rings. Does he answer the phone? Of course. But in the British Lancet last week, an anonymous doctor revealed a "valued little secret"-a deception not specifically forbidden by the letter of the Hippocratic oath...
...Aged 60, weighing 200 pounds, his muscular physique topped off by iron-grey hair, an engaging grin and keen brown eyes, Phoneman Frank Dees fought back with a counter-complaint. He asked for permission to raise his rates, discontinue the exchange at nearby Livingston, force subscribers to pay their phone bills. Snapped he: "The kind of service they're gettin' is the kind they're payin...
...hearing of his and his subscribers' complaints, Dees was his own attorney, his sole witness. Asked to explain his last year's salary from the phone company, he said: "I figured it was worth $100 a month to myself for having to put up with these complainers." Expounding his company's connections, he offered: "My company is in cahoots with the Southern Bell. . . . They get the money and I get the cahoots." Of a subscriber who claimed he had been trying to get a telephone installed for three years, the phoneman asked: "Do you still want...
...doctor has a cluttered office in the New York Academy of Medicine, where he works every day from 9 to 6, sometimes even till midnight. A garrulous telephoner, he waves the phone in the air as he talks. With his devoted wife, who died a few years ago, he used to take long hikes along the Hudson River Palisades, and wrote a New York Walk Book. He still chops wood, goes for long jaunts. A regular visitor at important medical meetings, Dr. Dickinson is usually seen with a pencil poised over a well-worn black notebook, looking intently...