Word: telegramming
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...those who learned of the Muncie venture was Roy Dickinson, associate editor of Printers' Ink. Thinking down the groove of his own experience in the Army Intelligence Service, he telephoned small Carl Byoir, publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, with whom he worked when Mr. Byoir was on George Creel's Committee on Public Information during the War. (Mr. Byoir likes to tell how he once set a chorus of 600 U. S.-born Slovenes to singing their national anthem on a mountain behind the Italian front and caused 60,000 other Slovenes to desert from...
...present system of telephone communication is especially unsatisfactory in buildings otherwise as modern as the new Houses. The resident of Lowell, Eliot, or Dunster, who has not a private telephone, can be reached only by telegram; he cannot make calls except by using the pay-phones near the Common Rooms. In the older buildings of Kirkland, Winthrop, and Leverett, the situation, though not ideal, is somewhat better. The pay-phone in each entry provides the convenience of limited use to students who cannot afford a private line. Randolph Hall has a still more convenient arrangement: all suites are provided with...
...also said no Western State had asked for aid, not even Alfalfa Bill Murray. I'm going to send Bill a telegram tonight...
...bottles of milk, hundreds of pounds of bacon, flour, beans and loaded it all into three trucks. First objective was Pineville, in Bell County. After that they planned to proceed to bloody Harlan, distributing the food at miners' mass meetings. Before they left Knoxville, Mr. Frank received a telegram from the mayor of Pineville to the effect that there were no mines near his town, that Pineville did not need Mr. Frank's food and that no mass meetings would be tolerated. The party chose to go on despite this cold welcome. Off through the cedar-clothed hills...
...were brought up before the lines parted. The seas grew heavier, slapped against the sides of the searching ships, but below the surface there was no sound. The 48 hours of air and life in the M-2 were up. Sir Bolton bowed his head and signed a telegram. "There is no hope now of saving life." Mrs. Morris received her telegram. It was condolences from her King & Queen...