Word: telegramming
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...Studebaker Corp., speeds 60 miles an hour, nets 25 miles to the gallon. Mr. Erskine was not in Paris to see his car support the U. S. invasion of European markets. At his desk in the home of Studebaker at South Bend, Ind., he was thinking politics, writing a telegram...
...park. It was Ruth's afternoon. The day before he had proclaimed in colorful language his contempt for St. Louis; now he must make good or be derided. Furthermore an eleven-year-old boy dying of blood poisoning in Essex Fields, N. J., had sent him a telegram asking for a home run. The appeal was exactly the sort of thing to appeal to Ruth's theatrical, large, and warmly human temper. "As soon as I knocked my first run," he said, "I thought to myself: 'There's one for the sick kid.' ' Before...
...from the seaplane and up the Speaker's steps-Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare congratulating Pilot Alan Cobham and a mechanic- upon completing an epic of British aviation, a 28,000-mile round trip to farthest Australia (Melbourne) in an all-British De Havilland. There was a polite telegram from King George...
...employ a young Canadian named William T. Dewart. Mr. Munsey owned the Mohican Hotel in New London, Conn. Mr. Dewart became a bookkeeper there. Last week, aged 51, Mr. Dewart ap- peared as the purchaser of the late Mr. Munsey's New York Sun and New York Evening Telegram, together with the Mohican Hotel and other New London properties. Somehow Mr. Dewart had financed the purchase individually, even as Mr. Munsey financed his purchase of the Sun by giving James Gordon Bennett a million in cash and six promisory notes for a half-million each. It was known, furthermore...
...deathly still, gasped, sprang up, lit his candle, paced his floor. He pored through the telephone book, telephoned the police, rushed to a series of addresses, called up the newspapers, searched hospitals, enlisted radio. His one clue was a name, "Penn." After three days, from London came a telegram signed by a Mr. Penn, allaying his fears, telling him that the next post would return to the druggist, unopened, the box of pills into which, in his night thoughts, the druggist had remembered having put quarter-grains (a lethal amount) of strychnine, by mistake...