day letter

day letter

n.
A telegram sent during the day.
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day′ let`ter


n.
a telegram having a limited number of words and sent slower and cheaper than a regular telegram.
[1920–25]
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The previous day letter was received from foreign office through fax.
Led by four dancing shark mascots, environmentalists visited the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to deliver a Valentine's Day letter to Cimatu.
Big Phil, Omagh RE: Monday's Comment of the Day letter. An independent Scotland could easily have afforded the PS134million loan/grant for Grangemouth.
If only the Welsh leaders of the past had shown some of the bravery and passion of our modern day letter writers.
Other standout exhibits offered in the sale include jewellery, concert tour costumes, film props, photographs, awards and a series of rarely seen items from the music legend's personal life -- including a signed AmEx card, the cancellation of a post-marital agreement with Sean Penn, a hand-written Valentine's Day letter, school yearbook, film contracts and a daily planner that gives fans a peek into Madonna's personal world.
Yesterday, William Coker QC, representing then Detective Inspector Graham Mouncher, who helped lead the 1988 investigation, took Miss Vilday through the Boxing Day letter.
He's donned a matador costume and chased cattle to promote a blog, penned a Valentine's Day letter imploring Massachusetts companies to relocate to the Granite State and jumped on a motorcycle to convince Motorcycle Week visitors New Hampshire is the place to be.
The decade-by-decade animated timeline spans from the 13th to the 21st century and highlights well-known collection items including a manuscript of the Law of the Forests, a chronicle of the Black Death and John Arderne's medical treatise, as well as more unusual ones such as a 15th-century recipe for custard and what is believed to be the oldest surviving St Valentine's Day letter, written in English in 1477.
"It is a Saturday night Independence weekend and there is not one church on this island that would welcome me and my kind publicly speak our names openly with respect and honor us for who we are." In "Independence Day Letter" Helen Klonaris's contribution to Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles the author describes the social exile experienced by gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered people in her native Bahamas.
These two items, the revenue agent's report and the waiver of restrictions, are commonly referred to as the 30 day letter.