Word: despatche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Wills stepped out to despatch Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the women's finals. The court was juicy as buttered asparagus with a recent rainfall, a circumstance which boded ill for Miss Wills. Both players wore spiked shoes, but before the first set was six games old, Miss Ryan was taking off her shoes. The gallery giggled. She tried on a pair with soles of crape rubber. They skidded. She tried on a pair borrowed from William M. Johnston. The gallery tittered again. Miss Ryan removed her footwear altogether, began to scuttle about the court in stocking feet...
French forces in Morocco were said to rival kaleidoscopes in the diversity of their hues, varying from fairest white to darkest black. White Frenchmen from the North and olive Frenchmen from the South fight shoulder to shoulder with coffee, chocolate and black Annamites, Senegalese, Hindus, Algerians, Tunisians, and, as despatch most aptly put it "the mixed grill of the Foreign Legion...
...youth named Edward G. Chandler of the University of California won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship from Cranston Holman of Stamford, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Though no McLoughlin, he played the sort of bounding game that has characterized the players from his state- won with despatch. Two more Californians-G. Hillis, G. Stratford-took the doubles from a Yale team...
Theology emanating from Gainesville, Tex., tickled the ear of the musical press last week. The Gainesville despatch in part...
Female teachers having continued to multiply in England during the . past year, a despatch from London last week stated that the seceding males (the National Association of Schoolmasters) had again aired their masculinity, pointing their resolution this time with a protest against the inspection of boys' physical training classes by women...