Word: despatche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President may have arched surprised eyebrows last week, if he read a despatch from Argentina saying that famed news organ La Prensa, of Buenos Aires had carried an article by David Lloyd George in which occurred the sentence: "Mr. Baldwin [British Premier] has much in common with the malleable and garrulous Coolidge...
TIME, meticulous, chronicled exactly the discomfiture of Mr. Butterick, as cabled in despatches, suppressing, however, certain additional and revolting details. To the correspondent responsible for this despatch a thoroughgoing rebuke...
Said Bull-slayer Villalta, earner of $50,000 per annum for plying his trade: "I find that my audiences now expect me to completely despatch the bull in a maximum of 20 minutes. . . . Never, during my American tour, did I disappoint them...
Last week the bandy legs of James Takpuc, Eskimo runner, trit-trotted over the 100 miles of trail from Beechy Point, Alaska, to Point Barrow. Tired but articulate, he grunted out good news, delivered a written despatch...
...despatch was from Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, black-bearded Australian soldier of fortune, and his sky pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, saying they had crawled safely off the Polar Sea after 17 days and nights of discomfort...