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More "Telephone booth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... overcoat and hat before entering the dining-room, wasted no time but entered a public telephone booth. When he emerged he was whistling cheerily, and the doorkeeper watched him hail a street car with ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... with excitement, which Sommers could feel rather than read in the dull faces of the men. From time to time White or Einstein bobbed out of an inner office, or a telephone booth, and joined the watchers before the blackboards. Their detached air and genial smiles gave them the appearance of successful hosts. White recognized Sommers and nodded, with one eye on the board. "Rag's acting queer," he said ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... telephone booth under the stairs and Madam Stanhope was almost immediately aware of the staring servants who were trying not to seem to ...
— Exit Betty • Grace Livingston Hill
... Store at Millville divided importance with Bob West's hardware store but was a more popular loafing place for the sparse population of the tiny town. The post office was located in one corner and the telephone booth in another, and this latter institution was regarded with much awe by the simple natives. Once in awhile some one would telephone over to the Junction on some trivial business, but the long-distance ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation • Edith Van Dyne
... rest of the meal, then descended to the lobby of the club. While Cooper and Collins waited for their hats and coats, Fanwell darted into the telephone booth and called ...
— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin
... voice or my name, and only when I said that I had been Jerry Benham's tutor, did she remember. It was a personal matter, I explained, having to do with Mr. Benham, and at that she consented to see me. I left the telephone booth at the hotel perspiring freely, aware for the first time of the awkwardness and delicacy of my undertaking. But I dined and changed into my blue serge suit, one that I had bought upon the occasion of my last visit to town, and at half past ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... all about the railroad end of the coal business?" was the first inquiry shot at me; but it was not made until after the book-keeper had shut himself into the telephone booth, presumably for ...
— Branded • Francis Lynde
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