Word: telegrapher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stream of profanity. Stella Campbell stared coldly at him, drawled, "Young man, that was me." She always did as she pleased. She was reputedly the first woman ever to smoke in public in the U. S. She demanded $25 for newspaper interviews-and got it. She went into telegraph offices and insisted on dictating her wires. Even when, an old woman down on her luck, she went to Hollywood, she refused to kowtow, would ask world-famous movie stars whether they "were connected with the cinema." In no time she had alienated everybody who might have helped her: an awed...
Forty-eight minutes later a similar report from Stockholm via a British news service, Exchange Telegraph, finally reached the U. S. Forty-nine minutes later the British Broadcasting Corp. gave early risers in Britain alarming reports of Denmark's invasion. For confirmation, BBC quoted the New York Times...
Journalist Douglas Reed, who was for many years London Times correspondent in Berlin, sensed a dark parallel. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post he wrote: "Are we going to tread the whole path that Berlin trod and have palaces of sexual perversion with electric signs outside advertising the wares? To anybody who remembers the appalling conditions in Berlin between 1918 and 1930, the present trend of affairs in London is terrifying. . . . Girls do not WANT to dance nude. They want to become stars as singers, dancers, or actresses. ... All are told that stardom is within their reach...
...Center has a grade school, high school and junior college. Its $250,000 plant (43 buildings) is the result of contributions from Wellesley and Radcliffe College alumnae, of various women's organizations, who also pay its $50,000 yearly running expenses. It has electricity, but no telephone, no telegraph. Its post office is Pippapass, Ky.-in honor of New England Browning Society donors. In honor of Kipling, its headmistress's office is labeled...
...Easter Sunday, telegraph wires hummed with holiday messages. Suddenly something went blooey. Teletype messages began to arrive in jumbles like pied type. Short-wave radio to Europe, to ships at sea, was blotted out, stayed blotted for several hours. Wire photos arrived looking like surrealistic blobs. Cursing engineers pronounced it the worst disruption of service in the historyof long-distance telephone and radio communication...