Word: telegraphe
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...huge U.S. corporation is a world apart, operating under mysterious rules and philosophies that are of little concern -or interest - to the housewife or the corner butcher. Businessmen know that this is not so - and perhaps their best proof is the world's largest firm: the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Few corporations in the world are as intimately woven into the life of a nation as A.T.& T. It not only helped the nation grow and prosper, but helped make the telephone a universal instrument that changed the world's mores, entered its drama and literature, and became...
...makes a point of having a listed telephone number just like the average telephone subscriber-and so do the presidents of his subsidiaries. They also answer their own phones and make their own business calls. Walter Koch, president of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co., sometimes gets up at night to answer his telephone, sometimes finds on the line a drunk who berates him for some imagined wrong. He has heard more than one turn and shout to his fellow tipplers: "Listen to me give hell to the telephone company president!" Says Koch philosophically: "It does them good...
...literary conventions are present. Crabbe's heterodoxy is an "alabaster" youth named Kemp, as "pure as a moonstone," whose hair had turned white the month after he was sent down from Oxford (for an unspecified offense). Reduced to the martyrdom of earning his keep as a telegraph messenger, Kemp goes blind. Crabbe installs the miserable stripling in his rooms, fills out his "exquisitely pale" skeleton with Bovril...
Dear old, bloody old England Of telegraph poles...
Grace Notes. Betjeman both likes and deplores the sad, cramped lives of city suburbs. His own life is cramped by book reviewing (London Daily Telegraph), a trade he detests, but he has managed some grace notes. His Berkshire country home is an old rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the Great. There his busy wife Penelope (daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode) hunts and fishes with Pam-like energy, keeps an eye on their son and daughter and runs a thriving tea shop called King Alfred's Kitchen. She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every...