Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporter, Boston Record-American; assistant television producer, World Video; seasonal park ranger, Shenandoah National Park; editorial department. American Telephone and Telegraph; editorial department, Collier's; translator, export, division of Kaiser-Frazer; and a position in the South American branch of the First National Bank of Boston...
This year's book will be more than doubled in size because of the installation of 2000 telephone under the new University exchange. The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is presently issuing 500 numbers each week...
...Though both the Dewey and Truman trains carried loudspeakers, the reporters had to hop off for platform speeches if they wanted to size up crowds. And they heard so many speeches that they began to sound like broken records. Stories were written in a hurry, lest they miss the telegraph operator at the station stop. At some points, Western Union stationed runners along the track, to catch weighted envelopes of copy tossed from the moving train...
Said the Daily Telegraph: "The familiar tunes [as] handled by Britten . . . may be hated by traditionalists . . . But what may seem like impudence is really the artistic assurance of a musical creator who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it with disarming brilliance . . . There is hardly a fault of style, and scarcely a moment's violence is done to Gay's satire." The Observer's Charles Stuart was more lyrical: "... I have been wakening up every morning with new filaments of the exquisite score running through my . .. head. There, I think, you have a sure...
...Santa Ana, Calif. Register; the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph; the Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph-Forum; the Pampa, Tex. Daily News; the Clovis, N.Mex. News-Journal; the Marysville, Calif. Appeal-Democrat...