Word: telegraphe
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...spoken to by a pudgy, rubber-faced young man; he admires the ball she is bouncing and, whistling a snatch from Peer Gynt in a strange, convulsive way, buys her a funny balloon. Presently you see the ball rolling out of a clump of bushes, the balloon, caught in telegraph wires, bobbing crazily in the wind...
...more men ever were found, alive. The Phœbus's first awful flash of the accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around...
...little picture, Agony in the Garden, was painted by Raphael. It is a panel from an altarpiece presented to the Museum 16 years ago by John P. Morgan, which can now be reassembled for the first time in 270 years. It was purchased from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Postal Telegraph chairman, father-in-law of wealthy Composer Irving Berlin...
...family, which was done in 1741 and is one of the first group paintings we have, has been leaned by the Law School especially for this occasion. Another portrait, that of the Marquis de la Fayette, is the work of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. There is also a portrait by John S. Copley of Mrs. Robert Hooper, the wife of the merchant, who when Newcastle was without fuel, made his fortune by "carrying coals to Newcastle...
...Ballantine, a chunky Harvard lawyer from Oyster Bay, L. I., backstopped Secretary Woodin, pointing up matters of policy for him to yes-or-no. Like a chief of staff Chicago's Jim Douglas, an erect and handsome young Princetonian (class of 1920), was on the Treasury end of telegraph wires lo the twelve Federal Reserve banks, to the 48 state banking departments, to the clearing houses of the nation. He whipped out orders faster than an army of subordinates could execute them...