Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish influence in the United States is undoubtedly tremendous. Governor Smith, says the press, will wear a green scarf and green socks to celebrate the occasion. The Western Union has concocted a series of "Top o' the mornin' to you" telegrams pasted on green blanks. Shamrocks sprout in every stationery store window. Nature looks complacently on her favorite sons and does her best to hurry along the forces of spring and tint the grass green. And the Irish poets do their best to prove that she has succeeded...
...slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve not to set foot in the U. S., although much...
...Mary was to have been sent to the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind. A rare operation, performed a few days ago on her right eye by Dr. J. B. McMurray of the Washington Hospital staff, technically known as an optical iridectomy, was today pronounced a success...
...first paragraph is written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...
Said J. H. Furay, vice president in charge of foreign news of the United Press: "The [Western Union] regulation is really not new. The United Press has not been using contractions for some time, and the experience has shown us that skillful filers are able to say in plain English, condensed and skeletonized, the same things without using 'cablese' and in the same number of less words...