Sentence examples similar to a telegram to be from inspiring English sources

Franklin Roosevelt sent a congratulatory telegram to be read aloud, and the poet Archibald MacLeish offered the most eloquent of many in-person encomiums, in which he said, "You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames that burned it".

By contrast, it is in the nature of the telegram to be a skeletal version of another thing — a communication that opens more than it closes.

A telegram to his mother: "Was offered and turned down solo job on next Garbo picture stop Roller skated with Walt Disney".

Late on the first day of battle Beauregard had foolishly sent a telegram to Richmond saying, "The day is ours!" Disappointment was palpable, and Davis wept bitterly over Johnston's death — they had been at West Point together.

In a telegram to Lincoln, McClellan claimed, "Hancock was superb today".

He also studied the words of Woodrow Wilson, who sent a telegram to the committee — he was ill and could not attend a ceremony — for his 1919 award in recognition of his 14-point peace program for ending World War I.

Upon signing the contract Epstein immediately sent a telegram to The Beatles (who were in Hamburg), and the Mersey Beat music journal in Liverpool.

Lincoln responded in a telegram to Grant: "Let the thing be pressed".

By the time British officials determined that "it was reasonably clear that such vessel is intended for warlike use against citizens of the United States... in the interests of the... Confederate States" and dispatched a telegram to Liverpool ordering that the "290" be detained, Bulloch's planned escape was underway.

I shook hands with Malcolm and then a day later he sent a telegram to NME saying I'd been sacked for liking the Beatles, which he never had the bottle to say to my face and wasn't true.

When the race was finished the foreigner was writing a telegram to his wife: "Staying here till Monday.