Word: despatched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berlin received its first shipment of "real" bananas in a year. The word "real" was inserted in the despatch to prevent confusion with the well known German song, Ach, wir haben keinen bannanen, heute. Shipments arrived from Holland and England and 60,000 cases were placed on the market at the Hamburg docks. Heretofore the anti-luxury act has forbidden bananas, oranges...
Some time later The New York World printed a Washington despatch which carried the sentence: "Without calling any names, Mr. Harding spoke of a hypocritical publisher of a newspaper and it was understood he meant Mr. Hearst...
...visit of Mr. Johnson to Egypt was of concern to the Monitor's readers, it might have had the despatch cabled, or have interviewed Mr. Johnson on his arrival. The publication of the correspondence without apology was an indication of one of the worst of journalistic faults, laziness...
...Another despatch from Sovietland corroborated the fact that Trotsky had retired to his country palace, but authoritatively stated that he had been ordered by doctors to rest for two months, owing to "weakness of both body and spirit, the result of a mysterious malady developing during the past three months, whose marked symptom was a wasting, intermittent fever." This despatch inferred that the rumors in Russia about Trotsky were more numerous than those received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves...
Admiral von Tirpitz, Hochadmiral der Deutsche See Flotte warhend des Krieges: "A Berlin despatch stated that I inserted a want advertisement in a newspaper, announcing that any modest young man wishing a quiet, refined abode might have a furnished room in my residence...