Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Press, Columbus Citizen, Denver Express, El Paso Post, Evansville Press, Fort Worth Press, Houston Press, Knoxville News, Indianapolis Times, Memphis Press, New Mexico State Tribune, Oklahoma News, Pittsburgh Press, San Diego Sun, San Francisco Daily News, Terre Haute Post, Toledo News Bee, Washington Daily News, Youngstown Telegram, Kentucky Post...
...readers of the nation. When "The Women Tempted" has run into numerous editions and has found a place on every virgin's Sex Foot Shelf, the distinguished critics of the country will be forced to realize to their despair that the New York Evening Journal and the Boston Telegram are the true expressions of the nation's taste in light literature...
...unpleasant, but the right of a government to have secrets in which its citizens do not share is even more questionable. Nations have too often been decoyed into war by misunderstanding when a correctly informed public opinion might have saved the day. Bismark's meddling with the Eme telegram and similar incidents are already sufficiently notorious. Yet diplomacy still continues to wrap itself in the shroud of secrecy which it acquired in the poison dagger atmosphere of the renaissance. But despite its occasional Machiavellian characteristics, state craft, unlike necromancy, does not properly belong to the black arts, and should, therefore...
...Houdini was equal to the occasion: "You're not a medium, and anyhow you ought to know what's in the telegram, you sent...
...anxious about him that he should not grow up into a conceited Prussian." Of Wilhelm II (in 1877, eleven years before he became Crown Prince on the accession of his father, Frederick III [1888]). "Dear Willie of Prussia's 18th birthday. Received most delightful and astonished telegram about my intention of giving him the Garter. It is a rare thing that three members of the same family and three generations should have it at the same time. May God bless, protect and guide dear Willie." To Edward VII (her son, at the age of 28, then Prince of Wales...