Word: telegraphs
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...group of about 70 young and old people joined in a quiet lunch-hour march to New England Telephone and Telegraph's Boston offices yesterday to protest the use of phone taxes to support...
...oratorio was bringing together the professional talents of the recently married lovers Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, she as Joan, he as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a children's choir. The critics were cool. "Though often touching," said the Daily Telegraph, Mia was "lightweight casting for a part that demands uninterrupted inner concentration and the vocal range of a great actress...
...available for transportation to a doctor. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler noted that the Cousins Milhous, "a very self-reliant family," had been quoted as seeking no aid from Nixon. The President, he said, was "proceeding on that basis." In an interview with London's Sunday Telegraph, the President recalled his own family's insistence on self-reliance. During the '30s, when his brother Harold was bedridden with tuberculosis, his parents refused to send him to a county hospital. Instead, they borrowed the money for private hospital care. They felt it was morally wrong...
...confided to her New York Post readers, "to write at last that a fashion collection is frankly, definitely and completely hideous." Chimed in the Guardian's Alison Adburgham: "A tour de force of bad taste . . . nothing could exceed the horror of this exercise in kitsch." The Daily Telegraph: "Nauseating"; France-Soir: "A great farce"; Le Figaro: "Un long gag." Women's Wear Daily, once Yves's leading fan, called his work "poor" and urged him to "shake off the weirdo and kooky influences." Others blamed Good Chum Andy Warhol for the campier aspects of Yves...
...only too happy to help her in any way, i. c. look after her ticket, seat, trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed off at the speed of six miles a week. At about every other telegraph-post, just as the baby was getting tranquilized, the conductor would step into our car and "holler," "Tickets, please. Change cars for-" we couldn't hear where, but we surrendered a coupon and moved into the baggage-car, that being the only obvious change; and just as the baby was calming...