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...been consciously influenced by it. Webb, now 87, had long ago (1929) overcome his aversion to titles of nobility and reluctantly consented to become Baron Passfield (though the late Beatrice refused to become Lady Passfield). But Shaw, looking for new worlds to conquer, at 90, sent the meeting a telegram...
...former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with him at the time of the murder. She was fired, married her American and they went honeymooning at Atami hot springs. A telegram came from her studio: in view of her "democratic sacrifice," all was forgiven, and the big role was hers after all. Fadeout...
Baruch also released a telegram which he sent this afternoon to Wallace in Washington after, he said , attempting until late in the day to have Wallace agree to sign the statement prepared in New York...
...Magazine. I thought that I had gained a working knowledge of America and the American idiom through dictionaries and constant reading of the New York Times, but I nearly gave up when I saw the miniature package of world events between the covers of TIME. Names mentioned in the telegram-like articles were usually unknown to me; parts of its contents seemed incomprehensible, others without meaning. The pushed-together political reviews which, like other stories coming from dozens of sources, were all strung through the same needle's eye, were a complete mystery to me. And then the captions...
...like one of Jimmy Durante's jokes," Petrillo grinned. "Jimmy says, 'Fellows listen to this here indignunt telegram I sent Putrilluh. I sure told him off. It reads Dear Mr. Putrilluh: Quote. Unquote...