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Updated: June 12, 2025
He found that the business of optimism was no mean task. After half a dozen futile starts he went to the public library and for a week investigated the files of a popular magazine. Then, better equipped, he accomplished his first story, "The Dictaphone of Fate." It was founded upon one of his few remaining impressions of that six weeks in Wall Street the year before.
Another does expert work with the typewriter and dictaphone. I encourage the women to knit, crochet, sew and cook by proving to them that this is possible without eyesight, and I feel certain that, through such efforts, many a domestic tragedy has been averted.
"You see I've got to get evidence that will stand in the courts to convict this fellow, and if he's scared off before we get that, the game will be up." "That's what my photo telephone will do it will get the evidence, just as a dictaphone does. In fact, I'm thinking of working it out on those lines, after I clear up this business."
And this," he concluded, leading the way to the other room, "is the holy of holies." It had a rubber floor, too, and Rodney supposed, a felt ceiling. But its only furniture was one straight-back chair and a canvas cot. "Sound-proof too," said Randolph. "But sounding-boards or something in all the walls. I press this button, start a dictaphone, and talk in any direction, anywhere.
Go get with child a mandrakeroot, you, you journalist! I will meet the Intelligencer's deadline as I did before your father got the first tepidly lustful idea in his nulliparous head and as I shall after you have followed your useless testes to a worthy desuetude." He replaced the receiver and picked up the mouthpiece of the dictaphone again, paying no further attention to me.
A friend in the artillery made over the remainder of his lease, and Eric gave himself a fortnight's holiday to order the furnishing and decoration of the six tiny rooms. When he surveyed telephone and dictaphone, switches and presses, files and cases, tables and lights, he felt that the ease and beauty of which he had dreamed were dulled and stunted by the reality.
He turned to work on an intricate little machine which had a long coil of wire, very thin, much thinner than a telephone wire. "Do you know what this is?" Ted did not know. "A dictaphone. We will have use for it. I am getting it ready for tonight." Ted had heard of a dictaphone, but he had not yet learned its usefulness.
She has just said to her mother that she can't see why a person in her mother's position can't be content to meet proper people, but always has to be getting herself into the newspapers with some new sort of nut." "My Gawd, Billy!" cried Maw. "You got a dictaphone on dem people?" "No, but I know the type so well, I can tell by their looks.
These gentlemen had been placed where they could listen to the evidence for themselves and, to make doubly sure, a dictaphone had been installed and an official court stenographer had taken down the whole thing.
Brown." "What? Real plumb scared of him?" "Yes. She looked round and said even walls had ears." "Maybe she meant a dictaphone," said Julius with interest. "Miss Tuppence is right," said Sir James quietly. "We must not leave the flat if only for Mrs. Vandemeyer's sake." Julius stared at him. "You think he'd get after her? Between now and to-morrow morning. How could he know, even?"
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