Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of correspondents huddled about the fire at Paul Smith's Hotel, by Secretary Sanders, who, however, did not disclose whether the fish was pike or pickerel. Experts estimated, writers visualized; and the news of a Presidential catch, 14 inches long, approximating three pounds, was clicked over the telegraph. The fish had been caught on the hook of a trailer from Native Otis' boat, much to the surprise of the President. At the press conference it was supposed that the President would lift the cloud concerning the species and dimensions of his fish. He did not. Five days...
...lost their lives. Terrific lightning displays accompanied the deluge in the Lake Constance region, Germany, killing many as the storms swept northward. The rivers Neckar, Elbe, Weser, Oder and Rhine inundated hayfields, vegetable gardens, vineyards, doing inestimable damage. "All men to the dikes," flashed over the country's telegraph lines...
...embers of a generation-old Spanish feud kindled again last week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...
From 14 countries they came, strong men and suave men, sputtering men and conservative men, dynamic men and diplomatic men, admen all. President Coolidge sent messages of good cheer. In the message that opened the convention, their president, C. K. Woodbridge (U. S.), spoke of "the radio . . . telephone . . . telegraph . . . airplanes . . . automobiles . . . daily papers . . . national magazines. . . ." With all these media of communication the admen were concerned; many of them were the paid publicity agents of the industries named; through these industries the utterances of their convention were distributed to a listening world...
...founding of "Estes Park" (Col.) in 1875 caused him to be ridiculed in London as the "Yanko-maniac." As a youth he twice served the London Daily Telegraph as war correspondent (Anglo-Abyssinian and Franco-Prussian wars), shot big game with "Buffalo Bill" and many another, soldiered, yachted, steeplechased. Facially he resembled Wilhelm...