Word: despatch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...despatch relates) 50 bandit-soldiers were "put on the mat" for insubordination. They expected a "severe reprimand," but it is said, they got a severe dose of lead from the rifles of the regulars...
Gloria Caruso, three-year-old daughter of the late tenor: " I am summering at Deauville. A despatch said that I ' romp around in a little one-piece bathing suit, just like the big girls...
...President pro tem, presides when President Coolidge is absent.) It is thought that Senator Cummins, incumbent, will not be a candidate. At various times during the last session Mr. Moses was called to the chair. According to his backers, he "made some of the elder Senators dizzy by the despatch with which he kept the Senate machinery going...
...York Herald despatch from Washington described a " Democratic plan " designed to keep William Jennings Bryan from " kicking over the traces or sulking in his tent, refusing to give any active support to the (1924) ticket." The plan: Name Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska (W. J.'s brother) as the candidate for the Vice Presidency...
...London despatch states that Count Michael Karolyi and family are in Cardiff, Wales, en route for Canada, " where the Count proposes to live his remaining years...