telegram

The modern US presidential concession call, in which the losing candidate reaches out to the winner to say “Hey, it’s yours, good luck,” started in 1896, when William Jennings Bryan sent William McKinley a well-wishing telegram.

Inquiries will be accepted only via Western Union telegram or rotary phone.

She begged their father to contact him, refusing to relent until he sent an inquiring telegram.

I think the pendulum has swung back on that because of books like The Blood Telegram.

I sent a telegram to the Rabbi in Damascus asking if he needed religious books and prepaid [for his response].

She told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Tuesday that Davis “did what she needed to do for her daughters.”

My No. 4239 addressed to Maxwell and repeated to you was sent before receiving your telegram under reply.

Hilda reached to take the offered telegram, but her hand wavered around it instead of seizing it.

Never again would she ignore an urgent telegram, though she did not believe that this telegram had any real importance.

But a knock at the door interrupted them; the discreet Capt entered, bearing a telegram upon a salver.

As already reported in my telegram, fire from the Asiatic shore is at times troublesome, but I am taking steps to deal with it.