Word: telegramming
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Last week Bishop Cannon fired back. He sent a telegram to ecclesiastical journals, widely reprinted. Excerpts: "I DESIRE THE CHURCH TO KNOW THAT I SHALL AT THE PROPER TIME ASK FOR FULL INVESTIGATION OF ALL CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST ME, EVEN THOUGH INSTIGATED BY ENEMIES, AND DISTORTED, AND MISREPRESENTED BY HOSTILE WET PRESS. FRIENDS CONFERRED WITH THINK IT UNWISE TO ASK FOR SUCH CHURCH ACTION UNTIL COMPLETION OF THE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. . . . MEANTIME, I SIMPLY STATE TO MY BRETHREN THAT I HAVE NOT VIOLATED ANY CIVIL OR MORAL...
Late in the week rebels captured the village of Fasa Niris, advanced on winemaking, goat-smelling Shiraz. Undismayed, Shah Reza continued counting cartridges, sent a telegram to Forughi Khan, his astute, warlike Ambassador at Constantinople, offering him the post of Persian Prime Minister to return and help put down the revolt...
Heywood Broun, New York Telegram colyumist, commented: "This young Negro . . . will be called upon to exercise as high a degree of courage as any flier who ever crossed the ocean...
...hands relating to alleged stock gambling on margin by you with the late bucketshop firm of Kable & Co. . . . Would you have me promptly deny for you participation in any such transaction? . . ." The Bishop, who said that he first properly "digested and appraised" this ''suggestive skilfully-worded telegram," answered: "Affidavits evidently sent you for purely political purposes to destroy or weaken effect of my opposition to Wet Tammany Candidate Smith, parties selecting you as mouthpiece. I have bought and sold stocks and bonds and other kinds of property for many years, making full or partial payments on same just...
...window of her drab abode, contemplating suicide. The organ of the cinema house plays Tchaikovsky's Pathétique or something equally lugubrious and appropriate. But, hark! A knock on the door! The organist changes quickly into some gay lilt by Mendelssohn. It is the Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music or the orchestration is part of the film...