I think I will not hang myself today, part the whatever

Thanks to jonquil on the FFL (whose entry you might want to look at if you don't have access to the NYT, and for background) we have a list of abbreviations from The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code of 1891. Commonly used telegraph phrases reduced to IIRC and IANAL, only not acronymic.
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Let us at the very least adopt Slank-- sick of the entire matter
( Did I ever tell you about Cardinal Bandini? )