Word: despatche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good friend, Mr. Thomas. In court he was heard, allegedly, to curse, to refer to a man as a?. Slipshod, he never got rich, but when he needed money to pay for an automobile, Friend Thomas provided it. Enemies, easily and multitudinously created, whispered to the St. Louis Post Despatch, which, hot for a good story, spent a few thousand dollars digging up unlovely testimony. Finally, complaints reached Congress. In February, 1925, the Judiciary Committee of the House was ordered to investigate. Representative Boise of Iowa set out for the scene of the odors. He brought back to his committee...
From Manhattan, the Times sent radiograms poking around Europe in search of Correspondent Eyre, who could not be found. The wireless editor pulled out the original despatch. With the usual economy of words it read: "Pussyfoot arrived Germany intending make it second Sahara," which seemed ample justification for the rewrite man to have written: "William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, well known Dry crusader...
...Fleming, returns unexpectedly from his regiment. He discovers that she has been gambling bell, money and time with Count Deoder. Being a soldier he refuses to arbitrate and declares he never wants to see her again. At just that moment someone knocks at the front door. It is a despatch, ordering immediate mobilization...
...reporter wrote out a hurried despatch...
Down in the front of the orchestra with his daughter Florence sat Mr. Talley. Genial, gentle, a little embarrassed, he radiated satisfaction. After the second act he (a professional telegrapher) found his way back stage, broke into his first vacation" in 18 years to click off an Associated Press despatch on an improvised apparatus: "THE THINGS THAT THE TALLEY FAMILY HAVE BEEN DREAMING OF FOR 15 YEARS HAVE COME TRUE STOP OUR LITTLE GIRL IS SINGING TO THE WORLD AS WE ALWAYS THOUGHT SHE COULD SOMETIME DO AND WOULD DO CHARLES M. TALLEY...