Word: telegrapher
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...comfort was thrown by Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Britain's best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real War, the successor of the late great Lieut. Colonel Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System and the Expanding Torrent Method of Attack. He too agreed that another war is not unlikely, but insisted, contrary to general opinion, that it will be a very tame slaughter compared to the last one. His reasons: "Europe's general staffs...
Summoned to the telephone, Maude Phelps Hutchins, artist-wife of Chicago University's youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was told: "This is Postal Telegraph. We have a message for you." Then three girls in the telegraph office sang the message over the wire: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, "Happy birthday, dear Maude, happy birthday to you! - from Robert." Delighted, Mrs. Hutchins remembered that it was also the birthday of her good friend Mrs. Howard Linn, ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next...
...Telegraph officials denied that they would make their telegrams conform to the rules laid down by the valentine manufacturers in their code...
Seven hundred men of Harvard will glance at the calendar today, hesitate, and then dash for the nearest telephone or telegraph station...
...That telegraph officials say, the same number of forgetful Harvard men do every time St. Valentine's day rolls around. Armed with machine-made sentiments of varying saccharinity, printed on special blanks, the telegraph people are prepared to welcome the onslaught. The absent-minded swain need only choose between such lightsome ditties as, "At miles between us we can laugh, our hearts entwined by telegraph" and the more Victorian, "Cupid's arrows swift and true wing my love...