Word: telegrapher
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Joyous Thermometers. Reported the London Daily Telegraph's A. T. Cholerton: "The Moscow Command orders are: 'Drop your pack and go lightfoot after them. Then you will probably encircle and destroy them piecemeal and, in any case, you will force them to leave their stores behind...
Writer. In Columbus, Ohio, a visitor to a telegraph office wrote a message, threw it away, wrote another, threw it away, wrote a third, handed it to a clerk. The third: "All your cash and be quiet." The first and second, found after the stickup: "Be calm. This is a stickup"; "Holdup, All your cash...
...Francisco Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. sandbagged the front of its building...
London's Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, which usually supports the Government's India policy, expressed British Conservative opinion as follows: "These two objectors to Indian support of the war, and the hundreds of others who have been and will be released on the same grounds, are no longer regarded as having power for serious mischief." To Congressmen in India this was a fine piece of wishful thinking. They had in mind Jawaharlal's (Nehru's popular name in India) five previous, more rigorous prison terms. They knew that his opinions had not changed, that his mischief...
...ladies in charge, Mrs. Pitcher and Mrs. Sullivan, didn't mind the additional phone calls relayed to them by the master switchboard in Lehman Hall; they are used to handling the hundreds of queries that come in daily, through mail, telegraph, phone and person, earthquake or not, and as a matter of fact prefer to receive one-track inquiries. For as Mrs. Pitcher says...