Word: telegraphe
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...when a constitution is written and a freer democracy promised. Voters marked their ballots in curtained privacy, dropped them in padlocked steel ballot boxes; after tally clerks had tabulated the results, fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects, or simply wrote: "I love Ayub." So little suspense was involved that Karachi's leading daily, Dawn...
...myself from the fact that I was spending too much time with an idiot boy," he wrote. The play had been little more than "an overextension of a quite small idea." The practice of turning reviewers inside out is hardly exclusive to Broadway. Last week in London, the Daily Telegraph's exacting critic, W. A. Darlington, fumed over a sign outside the Strand Theater quoting him as urging the public: BY ALL MEANS GO AND SEE THIS PLAY. "If triviality is what you happen to be wanting," Darlington had actually written of The More the Merrier, "by all means...
Braille Reports. The first annual report for blind stockholders on records and in Braille was put out by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for an estimated 3,600 A.T.& T. stock owners...
...settle -the earth-shaking matter of what happens when a gynecologist impregnates his wife and his mistress at roughly the same time. The best notice for Sarah, who played the philanderer's wife, came from the London Daily Express, which found it "good to see her back." The Telegraph summed up the play: "As poor a piece as has reached any London stage for years...
...sender, and will be piled on a hilltop in October to serve as a sweet-smelling funeral pyre for the dead King. When the royal tree is at last found, the news will be spread by couriers, bronze drums, temple gongs, buffalo-hide tom-toms and by telegraph...