b-r-double-o-k-e

Updated: August 9, 2026

Lanyard, connected with the Knickerbocker promptly, with the customary expenditure of patience laboriously spelled out the name B-r-double-o-k-e, and was told to hold the wire. Several minutes later he began to agitate the receiver hook and was eventually rewarded with the advice that the Knickerbocker operator, being informed his party was in the rest'runt, was having her paged.

Louis Joseph Vance - The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf