Word: cablegram
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...British captain in Cairo ripped open a cablegram from England, goggled in mute horror at the message: "Son born." Frantic inquiries at the cable office disclosed that Form Message 185 had been substituted for No. 85 ("Receiving letters occasionally"). The error made a difference to the captain: he had not seen his wife in two years...
...broom closet would really be a dilly, and after all the ten men and true of D-41 McKinlock can always, like the street car conductor, find room for one more. So rally round, boys, leave your small change with Uncle George and we'll get that cablegram off right away. Or possibly make last Sunday night's beer party a weekly event...
...have learned in the past two years to run back and forth across the Atlantic when there is need of discussion, so in the future businessmen of London or Birmingham having negotiations afoot in New York or Detroit will board a plane where once they would have sent a cablegram." To all travelers Warner promised three things: 1) reasonable fares-about $100 each way; 2) safety-a long-term average of one fatality per 100,000,000passenger-miles; 3) dependability-91-97% on-schedule flights in winter, the almost perfect record of 99% in summer...
...hours left to catch a boat to South America, he was hurriedly called by the father of a student whose son was on the way to jail for some minor offense. Some time later, the offender was back in college and Benny smiled with satisfaction when he received the cablegram of thanks. This is only one of many times that Benny Jacobson has pulled Harvard men out of the fire with his mysterious sleight of hand. But it isn't always as exciting as this. More often he is asked for advice on questions ranging from mussy suits to entangled...
Churchill tartly cabled back that he was surprised at Curtin's tone, promised to review all the facts before the House of Commons. Later Churchill hinted that a vital cablegram had been delayed. The Melbourne Sun was forced to comment that L'Affaire Casey had been handled by all concerned with "surprising feebleness...