Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told to go down to the street and wait for the cab. Ten minutes later I rode to Stillman and paid the fare, which doesn't come out of the $15 infirmary fee. I went in and gave the receptionist some forms, and she gave me some forms. Upstairs, I got undressed, filled out a form, and went to bed, and a nurse took my temperature...
...information desk of Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman, a well-dressed, fidgety woman asked to see "the woman who gives people advice." A receptionist turned the visitor over to blonde Reporter Imogene Patrick, who soon realized that she had a Page One story...
Anything but frothy and rarely funny, the film turns a gay dog of an artist (Louis Jourdan) loose in the happy home of a stuffy, successful pediatrician (Dana Andrews) and his wife-receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor...
...February, with most of the lists back. Mrs. Ryan begins taking student applications and arranging for interviews with prospective employers. Receptionist Dorothy Hots, who handles most of the termtime "casual" business like blood donations and baby tending, also helps with the summer program...
Last week the Heise boys unveiled a unique project. In Winona, they opened the Heise Clinic. Its staff: Papa Heise & sons. Except for a nurse hired from outside, the clinic was manned entirely by the family. Daughter Dorothy was the receptionist; son-in-law John Curtis, the X-ray and physiotherapy technician. The building (financed by $100,000 the brothers had chipped in) looked like a gleaming vision straight out of Arrowsmith. A two-story limestone affair of 68 rooms done in tile, birchwood and oak, with shiny new medical equipment, the clinic had been personally planned and its construction...