Word: receptionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suite 361 of the Senate Office Building, Vice President Richard Nixon was working on a bulky folder of business letters when the intercom buzzed. Nixon picked up the phone, heard the receptionist announce from an outer office: "Governor Adams on red." Nixon pushed the red button: "Yes, Sherm?" Came the dry voice of White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams: "Can you come down here soon?" Replied Nixon: "Yes." Asked Adams, with an uncharacteristic note of urgency: "Could you come right away?" "Sure," said Nixon. "Fine," said Adams-and the telephone clicked...
...gigantic golden bird accosted a Yale receptionist yesterday, demanding tickets to the Harvard-Yale classic...
...Thresky," queried the comely receptionist, "if you go to the game, aren't you and the Owl likely to lose your freedom...
Firmly anchored in these details, the plot is sensitive, but again somewhat small. A fifty-three year old manufacturer, whose wife is dead, falls in love with an attractive receptionist, who is younger than his daughter. Plausible problems arise, and are plausibly resolved. A love story emerges that is, if not profound or passionate, commendably candid...
With even minor treatment requiring detailed reports, many busy doctors find they can no longer get along with just a receptionist or nurse, are hiring a new kind of medical officeworker-the "insurance secretary." The expense is passed on to the patient (some doctors now charge a special $3 fee for form-filling...