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Updated: June 13, 2025
I had a dictagraph in the room when Bromfield came to see me. You can hear it all in his own voice." "But there wasn't any woman with Lindsay at Maddock's when the raid was pulled off." "Sure there wasn't. I threw Bromfield down." "You arranged to have Lindsay killed instead." "Forget that stuff.
The old and experienced stenographers, had learned to look out for that, and to eliminate from their typewritten letters certain irrelevant and sometimes irreverent asides which Sam Hupp evidently had addressed to his pipe, or the office boy, and not intended for the tube of the all-devouring dictagraph.
He finally could stand no more and took the tube from his ear, reached for his hat and was gone. Thor had not seen Selwyn for a long time, but one morning, when he was expecting another for whom he had his dictagraph set, Selwyn was announced. He asked him in and gave orders that they were not to be disturbed.
Cutler's house and got herself on the phone. Your brother-in-law lunched at home to-day with her and the children and they are now going to the Hippodrome. "'Stop, look, and listen! Back of the bar I see two men in a room, but they did not see me. One is Tim Meehan, the other is a stenographer. He is taking notes. Each of them has on the ear-muffs of a dictagraph.
She leaned over the little recording instrument, which was built on a hinged shelf that could be cunningly swung into the desk body, and covered with a false front. As she did so she saw a curious little instrument, shaped somewhat like the receiver of a telephone receiver. Mary's experience with her father's work told her what that instrument was. "A dictagraph!" she exclaimed.
Bromfield tells me so himself. I don't care anything for your dictagraph. I'm no eavesdropper." "You tell him what he's up against and he'll come through all right. I'll see that every newspaper in New York carries the story if you don't notify me to-day that this attack on me is off. I'll learn you silk stockings you can't make Jerry Durand the goat."
It is so small, and the wiring so fine that it will not be noticed if it is done correctly. Here, Burke. I will do it now to this loose dictagraph receiver. Watch me." The old man worked swiftly. Burke scrutinized each move, and nodded in understanding. "Be careful to cover the wire along the floor with a rug he must never be allowed to see that, you know.
The government had a dictagraph record of conversations in which von Stroeme had contributed one hundred dollars to the Liberty Defense League, an organization which the Reds had got up for the purpose of carrying on agitation for the release of the I. W. W.s arrested in the dynamite plot against the life of Nelse Ackerman.
They had a dictagraph and a mechanical pencil register which connected Trubus's office with Clemm's." "It's a lie!" shouted Trubus, furiously. "Some of these degraded criminals are drawing my famous and honored name into this case to protect themselves. It is a police scheme for notoriety." "You'll get the notoriety," retorted Sawyer.
IV "The Alcotts" If the dictagraph had been perfected in Bronson Alcott's time, he might now be a great writer. As it is, he goes down as Concord's greatest talker. "Great expecter," says Thoreau; "great feller," says Sam Staples, "for talkin' big ... but his daughters is the gals though always DOIN' somethin'." Old Man Alcott, however, was usually "doin' somethin'" within.
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