Word: telegramming
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Last week, sunbeams crept softly through the penitentiary bars, glistened on tears of joy in the eyes of Mr. Langley, who was composing a telegram to his darling, Spouse Langley. His words flowed like a dream in the Vale of Tempe: "I am supremely happy. Even these grey prison walls seem to shine with the lustre of our beloved Cumberland and Blue Ridge. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. May He bless and keep always the good men and women and all our children of the Kentucky Mountains. My love and greetings...
When it was announced last week that the Kansas City Star and its morning edition, the Times, had been sold to a syndicate representing the present editors and managers a flood of congratulatory telegrams poured in. The Star had come into the market upon the death of the daughter of its late owner, Colonel William Rockhill Nelson, and friends of the newspaper waited in trepidation for the announcement of the buyer. Among those who expressed their satisfaction that the Star was to remain with the men who had made it were governors, cabinet members, editors, ambassadors, politicians, for the Star...
...Cross. 2) Proposals to abolish inter-Little Entente customs control. 3) The perennial "Hungarian question" (i.e., Hungarians are perpetually talking about monarchy and hatching means to burst the encirclement of Hungary on three sides by the Little Entente). As the three Premiers sat down to deliberate these issues a telegram was handed to Czechoslovak Benes. It contained an order from the chiefs of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he assist it in an attack upon certain grain tariff laws dear to the Czechoslovak Cabinet by resigning his Foreign Ministry forthwith. The Little Entente Conference broke up ere it began...
...coming with Ovis Poli" was the baffling telegram received by the secretary of the class of 1912, in charge of the reunion of his class here on classday, next Wednesday, Further investigation revealed that the telegram was signed by Kermit Roosevelt '12, recently returned from a scientific expedition to Asia, and that his message referred to a rare sheep found in the uplands of the East, and which the son of the former President is presenting to the University...
Last week Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska received from Frank Thomas, President of the Co-operative Beet Growers' Association of Scotts Bluff a telegram: "Feeling is running high here. There is danger of violence...