Word: cablegrams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is some doubt about how many students will come. The Research Center received a cablegram from Moscow Saturday saying that the students would leave there yesterday, but the cablegram included neither the names nor number of students in the Harvard contingent. Originally, four were expected, but the whole group may not arrive today...
Former Advocate editor T.S. Eliot cabled his remarks: "Your cablegram arrived too late/ And insufficiently addressed/ So you confuse my modest muse/ Who none the less cannot refuse/ Compliance with your kind request/ To greet The Harvard Advocate...
...vastest audiences ever assembled for purposes of unabashed materialism, Gino Prato, the humble Bronx shoemaker, softly read aloud a cablegram from his papa in Italy, roughly translated: "It is enough. Stay where you are." Said Gino: "Because I take my daddy's advice since I was a kid, I accept it now . . . and take...
...outside of Cambridge, even in foreign countries. One student who had to be in Cairo struggled out of bed in the middle of the night to take the test at exactly the same time as his classmates in Cambridge. For even the special proctor could not have intercepted a cablegram beginning "Examination in History...
...wife were summoned before the Central Committee's powerful three-man control commission and told to prepare to defend themselves. Impetuous Vlado Dedijer listened for only two minutes, challenged the commission's charges and then stormed out of the room. He dashed off an indignant cablegram to his friend Marshal Tito, who had just left for India (see below}. The government telegraph refused to send it. Dedijer could hardly believe, it seemed, that Tito knew all about the Central Committee's action, and had probably told them only to wait until he got out of town...