Word: telegrams
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...their final resting place at Harvard. But not until August 20, 1940 did the papers, under armed guard, reach Cambridge. On their arrival library officials immediately telephoned Langer, who was then vacationing at Gloucester, and asked him, to come to Cambridge to inspect the documents. They also despatched a telegram to Trotsky informing him of the safe arrival of his archives...
...official invitation, he decided he didn't feel at all connected to the White House and that what the White House was doing didn't have much connection with the arts." Whereupon Lowell, reflecting the general disaffection of intellectuals with L.B.J., sent the President a telegram declining the invitation. "We are in danger of becoming an explosive and suddenly chauvinistic nation," he wrote. "Every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making public commitments." Lowell was pleased by the "hundreds of letters" of congratulations that ensued, but he was not prepared for a sudden rush...
...socialism without love, according to a letter from Citizen Y. Alyansky of Leningrad printed in Pravda last week. Alyansky decided at 11 o'clock one evening to send a message of love to a girl friend by night letter. He dialed 06, the special Leningrad number for sending telegrams. When the operator insisted on knowing the nature of the telegram before he dictated it, he said in some embarrassment: "You see, it is an expression of love...
Alyansky: How can I transmit a telegram right...
Alyansky (beginning to dictate a telegram): I'm dying of love...