Word: despatched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...
...first act of The Music Robber, an opera in jazz, with music by an American (Isaac Vangrove, onetime assistant conductor of the Chicago Opera Company) and with lyrics by an American (Richard L. Stokes, dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Despatch) was given a gentle premier in the St. Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders...
Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...
...newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
...Motors Corporation, said: "Ridiculous on their face, for General Motors has recently announced a new series of cars, which should be sufficient answer." Said Walter C. Teagle, oil President: "Insofar as it refers to the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, there is no basis in fact for the despatch...