Word: telegramming
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Walter Lippmann sent the committee a telegram saying he was "glad to contribute $100." Monsignor John A. Ryan also sent a telegram of approval and "heartily endorses" the refugee plan...
While awaiting the Corporation's decision, the Committee continued its organizing activity under Robert E. Lane '39, chairman. A legal expert in Boston has been consulted on the technicalities of securing affidavits. A telegram pleading for an affidavit for a Vienna Kreisler Prize winner, threatened with jail, was received by Ernest M. Jondorf '41, Chairman of the Affidavit Committee, from a Long Island, New York, family...
...commencement of the meeting Chambers read a telegram from Thomas Mann, noted German author now in self-exile at Princeton, in which he attacked Nazi leaders. "The German people are as peace-loving as any other," the telegram read...
...most responsible for putting new blood into the National is its stocky, high-strung manager Edward ("Ned") King, Manhattan socialite who once worked as cartoonist for Rider and Driver and the World-Telegram, started managing the Horse Show five years ago. His conversation is as horsy as the show he runs. Instead of saying: "Please say that over again," Ned King invariably says: "Please come back to the post." Of horse shows and horsemen he philosophizes: "Most people are like horses. Some are stayers, others sprint and too many are incorrigible. We ought to have a saliva test...
...around the world. When detectives beat him to the boat, Harry makes a getaway, wires Martha the whereabouts of all his cash and tells her to meet him in Philadelphia. In her gleeful reply Martha thanks him for the money, bids good-by and nuts to him in a telegram which makes Harry Bogen's most inspired malice sound like baby talk...