telegram

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The papers also reveal Downing Street was forced to apologise after then-Prime Minister John Major's birthday telegram to the Queen Mother in 1994 was addressed in an "improper manner".

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

"The telegram boy said, 'I'm sorry to tell you, but this is bad news'," he says.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

Those charged included a dentist, a clairvoyant, an amateur pilot and a man running a large QAnon telegram group.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2024

After Finnegan’s death, a local newspaper published a telegram from Gen. Douglas MacArthur expressing condolences to Finnegan’s family:

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

Garfield asked him to immediately send a telegram to Lucretia, who was still in New Jersey preparing to join her husband later in the day.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow