Word: despatche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a despatch from Poland, the Soviet Republics, embodied in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, demanded a conference to discuss their autonomy. This is not meant to end the Union, but is intended as a check on the autocracy of Moscow...
...body of a story from Shelby, Mont., is the vital intelligence that "booze" and "real good beer" are available. Six dance halls thrive in this town of 400 that will play host on July 4 to the Dempsey Gibbons fight for the heavyweight championship. Lesser details of the despatch revealed that eight miles of railroad track will be installed for Pullman parking space, the two schools will be turned into temporary lodging houses, canvas and wooden shacks are rising like weeds, and other arrangements are feverishly under way, at a cost of $250,000, to take care...
From another source comes a despatch stating that General Feng Yu-Hsiang, known as the "Christian General," is about to exterminate the bandits with the legendary " one fell swoop." In the face of official reports from Peking there is probably not a word of truth in this contention. The Washington Post, in an editorial, humorously sums up the character of the Christian hymn-singing army: " An American officer reported that he had heard Chinese soldiers on the march singing to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, but the words meant something different. They sang the Doxology at meals...
...audience refused to leave when the lights were extinguished after a recital by John McCormack, forcing him to sing two encores in semi-darkness." So runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...
...Louis Post-Despatch, which prints pictures of local débutantes as they look now and as they looked ten years ago. Everybody laughs...