Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Wehrmacht retreats, the partisans retreat with it-harassing, dynamiting, killing, raiding villages and towns, ambushing supply columns, cutting telegraph lines. This war of stealth is not entirely haphazard; a thoroughly organized Central Staff of the Partisan Movement coordinates attack, and keeps in touch with the many "armies," partly by courier and partly by radio. But of necessity the control is loose, and the guerrilla leaders usually choose their own tactics, make their own decisions...
Adrian Conan Doyle, younger son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, himself set pen to paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was true that Sir Arthur was absentminded and often put on one brown shoe and one black shoe, but like Sherlock Holmes the accuracy of my father's deductions was startling...
Brigadier General John Franklin, Chief of the Water Division, Office of Chief of Transportation, was president of the U.S. Lines. Major General William H. Harrison, Deputy Chief Signal Officer, was engineering vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Brigadier General Carl R. Gray Jr., Director General of the North African military railroads, was executive vice president of Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway...
...George Taylor Spink works seven days, six nights a week (Sunday nights off) fiercely turning out the weekly paper that is baseball's bible. In gloomy, smoke-stained offices on St. Louis' Tenth and Olive Streets, he explodes with ideas, runs up $1,400 monthly phone and telegraph bills and blasts forth the illimitable enthusiasm that makes The Sporting News so accurate and complete that even traditionally tight-fisted ballplayers buy it (15?) with their own money...
...Question. According to the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, the favorite Australian poser concerning the U.S. is the Negro problem. Sydney folks wanted to know whether a Negro could become President, how the U.S. proposed to settle the Negro problem "in view of the coming recognition of the equality of other races with the white." They also wanted to know whether Mary Pickford was still married, what the Statue of Liberty represented, how much to believe of the Hollywood version of the U.S., whether the people prefer nightclubs to churchgoing...