telegram
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And when Mr. Young abruptly left, he sent Mr. Stills a sardonic telegram: “Dear Stephen, funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
At the time, the Tana family was vacationing on a remote Yugoslav island when a telegram arrived: “The restaurant burned down. Call me, Pearl,” recalls Katerina Tana, one of Dan Tana’s daughters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The author sent a telegram to his mother back home in French-controlled Algeria: “I’ve never missed you so much.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
He sent Morris a monthly telegram for years, begging him to write it.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
“Good afternoon there, Mrs. Tate. Sorry to interrupt you, ma’am, but I got a telegram for Captain Tate. It’s from Washington.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Stefansson’s telegrams to the dead men’s families are perfunctory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
ProjectXplore began investigating in September 2024, researching records such as ships' logs, telegrams and charts.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
At its center, a young, unnamed telegraph operator watches as the beautiful, married Lady Bradeen sends flurries of telegrams, hoping that no one will notice the messages to the dashing Captain Everard.
From Slate ● May 27, 2024
There were scripts, telegrams, contracts, prop guns, movie posters, postcards from the Navy to his beloved Cleo, and monogrammed lighters and matchbooks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
This isn’t my first time delivering telegrams to the Harrington house.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Toward the end of 1926, Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who would co-father “Citizen Kane,” telegrammed his friend Ben Hecht, the newspaperman who was finding himself between gigs and behind on his rent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
“I didn’t know what to do with myself. I telegrammed back saying there was no way I wanted to be connected to that show.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Nesbit had a serious relationship with the author Donald Barthelme before she married Gilman, and one day, Barthelme telegrammed her from Europe.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
At one point, after the mega-success of the "Ringo" LP, no less than John Lennon famously telegrammed Starr, saying “Congratulations. How dare you? And please write me a hit song.”
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2019
The day before, he had telegrammed President Kennedy and listed twenty different, racially motivated, unpunished actions taken by white men against black people in Birmingham.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
In 1916, Charles Evans Hughes waited two weeks before telegramming his concession to Woodrow Wilson, who noted that the message was “a little moth-eaten when it got here but quite legible.”
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2012
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