| No one with any sense ever supposed that telephone calls or telegrams or cables were private. |
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| In 1955, three years after becoming monarch, she sent 105 birthday telegrams to centenarians. |
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| In the days before phones were commonplace, they relayed many messages and telegrams from family members overseas. |
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| David waited tables, sold typewriter ribbons, and even delivered singing telegrams. |
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| Copies of the telegrams I sent as ambassador during this period were projected onto a large screen to allow the judge and jury to read them. |
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| They'll use letters, postcards, telegrams, cars and whatever other technology is at hand to snare the unwary. |
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| That spring afternoon of my senior year, I stared at the bulletin board reading the telegrams tacked up on it. |
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| Classes of school children assembled in front of the embassy and attached telegrams of condolence to the fence that surrounds the compound. |
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| Civil War commanders used telegrams to transmit messages instantly to each other over distances of a thousand or more miles. |
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| The Queen has sent more than 280,000 telegrams to couples celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary. |
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| Threatening or dishonest telegrams, or anonymous notes pushed under the door, set several plots pinwheeling. |
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| In an era before long distance telephone, they had to send telegrams to Aberdeen with their questions. |
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| These telegrams were delivered by local boys who received a valued six pence. |
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| These two take it upon themselves to deliver the dreaded yellow telegrams to the newly-widowed women living around them. |
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| Thousands of letters and telegrams from small businessmen, farmers and labor leaders urged him to resist all attempts to kick him upstairs. |
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| Most of the party's members have called, passed by or sent telegrams asking me to reconsider my decision, and I am grateful to them. |
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| Later, tube systems were enlarged, and new ones opened not only for the transport of telegrams but also for individual and bulk deliveries of letters and parcels. |
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| Today, when we think of telegraphs we think of electric telegraphs, we think of wires and Morse code and dots and dashes and telegrams and that sort of thing. |
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| The reality of his family's poverty finally leaves no option but for Frankie to work, but this time he finds a far better job delivering telegrams for the Post Office. |
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| Even after Chamberlain became too sick to attend Cabinet Meetings, Churchill had the main telegrams sent to his home where Chamberlain continued to read them until he died. |
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| They were the days of letters, telexes, faxes and telegrams. |
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| Over the next few weeks, throwing reserve to the winds, I cajoled interviews, sent telegrams, and wrote letters to every Indian historian of note. |
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| Her job included sending telegrams about casualties to next of kin. |
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| He said that in his company, employees would microfilm copies of outgoing international telegrams that would then be picked up by a government courier. |
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| Bright received many letters and telegrams of sympathy from the Queen downwards. |
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| Two telegrams from workers' parties in France and Spain were also read out. |
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