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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
Telephones
Invented
Similar
Nation
Slumbers
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Ringing
Nations
Slumber
Wrong
Telephone
Interrupted

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