Word: despatched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the exception of the first chapter, the book deals with the period 1905 to September, 1914. It is to be followed by another dealing with a further period of the war as seen by Mr. Churchill. It deals with the Moroccan question, the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir, the rivalry between Britain and Germany on the seas. The days immediately preceding the war are described with graphic minuteness from the naval angle, as are the opening phases of the world conflict. The author's descriptions of and anecdotes about famous personalities are, from...
Rome. Despite the anger of the populace, the Pope has decided that it would be futile to despatch a protest to Moscow and has refrained from so doing...
According to a despatch from Belgrade (capital of Yugo-Slavia) Albanian Mussulmans have decided to break with the Caliphate, suppress polygamy and abolish the requirement for women to wear veils in public. It was also agreed that prayers may be said while standing. Resolutions to this effect were passed by the Albanian Mussulmans' Congress at Tirana...
...Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists, not to be outdone, mustered their vocal chords and poured forth a varied species of banshee wail-but all to no avail. The communists not only carried...
...smaller mind turns in need to the dictionary. There are 2559 words between "W" and "Wash", and 6220 through only half the "U's" a rich supply with only a few in use. A little digging has given us, for example, "peduncles" in a press despatch referring to the space between two semi-circles side by side. A popular novelist unearthed "carapace" to give us one more synonym for "shell". Kipling, Conrad, and Meredith knew the value of the "mot juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich...