Word: telegraphe
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...xylophone. Next morning the music critics passed learned if mystified judgment. Wrote the London Times: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly because of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Agreed the Daily Telegraph: "Wholly unrewarding...
...Rushing to buy common stocks, partly as a hedge against inflation, investors early in the week drove the Dow-Jones industrial average to a record 713.94 (previous record: 705.96 in May). The averages were jolted back next day by an inadvertent Antitrust Division haymaker at giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (see Personal File), but the momentum was too great: by week's end the market had moved on to still another new high...
...temporarily over its balance-of-payments hump. But after all the tall Tory talking, Britons of both parties had expected and hoped for considerably more; everyone, it seemed, had been braced for dramatic, tough new measures to overhaul the flagging economy. "Is there anything new?" asked the Tory Daily Telegraph. "Where are the stern cures for fundamental weaknesses of the economy we were led to expect? Where is the dynamic doctrine, the fresh stimulus that is to put new drive into the exporter...
...between a YL (young lady) friend. Jean Bustard, and Max Stout, a radio officer in the merchant marine. Transmission was FB (fine business), and each was soon signing off with 88 (love and kisses). Eventually he proposed, and Jean became his XYL (wife). Now they have His and Hers telegraph keys...
...worst had come to pass: six surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...