How about "...and oblige." I can remember the General Passenger Agent
dictating any number of letters and most of them ended with "and oblige."
In the Passenger Department of the Q in Chiacgo all secretaries were male
until about 1960 or '61 or so. The secretary to the General Passenger
Traffic Manager took dictation on one of those machines. He darn near used
to fall asleep while taking dictation and smoking his pipe. In those days is
was no uncommon to have the department and others wreathed in fluffy clouds
of smoke from cigarettes, cigars and pipers! One funny incident was wheh he
transcribed a letter one time he never looked at his typewriter output. Just
typed it up with one or two carbon copies and an envelope. Put it on top of
the applicable file and laid it on his bosses desk. Well, one day came a
holler from Bill Burke, "Andy, what the #@%% is this!?" Andy ran in. He must
have started with his fingers on the wrong typewriter keys. The letter
looked like it was typed in code!
Norm
>From: Don Ross <don0731@g...>
>Reply-To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
>To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: "Herewith enclosed please find . . . "
>Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:49:13 -0600
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