Word: cablese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The cables touted last week that there is being erected at Moscow a broadcaster powerful enough to "crash through" any European station. Reputedly Soviet propaganda will be released daily at the hour, in the language, and on the wave length of the principal European stations. At the pleasure of the...
For 90 years Britons have adventured out to India and returned a-homing upon steamers bearing the triliteral device, "P. & O." Not the Bank of England is more symbolic of British fiscal solidarity than the chunky, workaday steam packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. "Gawd! I wisht...
Gumchewer Rogers was abroad, leering at statesmen, buildings, people, scenery. "Yours aquatically," he signed his cables. "Yours politically. . . Yours imploringly. . . Regards to 'Cuckooland.' " Readers could only picture the editors of the Times screaming with laughter at lines like: "Don't put too much faith, you Democrats, in...
"Florida Water and Fragrance" [article by "C. W. Barren" for C. W. Barren, president of the Wall Street Journal, author of many articles analyzing Florida]. "Those who do not like Gory Cables can go to hell. Fifty million dollars have already been spent on this Elysium. Most of this has...
Putting aside such thoughts, Rudyard Kipling received the gold medal with a smile, spoke a few words of courteous acceptance which circled the world's cables: "Recognition by one's equals and betters in one's own craft is a reward of which a man may be...