Word: despatches
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...team, even though it is captained by that mighty slugger, Rogers Hornsby, was in fourth place, losing games with exasperating regularity. After suffering four straight defeats at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, the Giants lost two out of four games to the St. Louis Cardinals. Meanwhile, a newspaper despatch quoted Mr. McGraw as saying: "I am getting tired of traveling and I expect to step out as manager. Hornsby is the man to carry on. The members of the club all swear by Hornsby." Mr. McGraw quickly branded this despatch as false, said: "They always start that report when...
...official self soon reminded Author Hoover to leave beatitudes and state his case, which he did with much clarity and despatch. The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, he said, knows there are ten million U. S. fishermen. Its New Jersey reports suggest that each fisherman catches only 4.5 fish per annum. Mr. Hoover proposed an idea...
...President may have arched surprised eyebrows last week, if he read a despatch from Argentina saying that famed news organ La Prensa, of Buenos Aires had carried an article by David Lloyd George in which occurred the sentence: "Mr. Baldwin [British Premier] has much in common with the malleable and garrulous Coolidge...
TIME, meticulous, chronicled exactly the discomfiture of Mr. Butterick, as cabled in despatches, suppressing, however, certain additional and revolting details. To the correspondent responsible for this despatch a thoroughgoing rebuke...
Said Bull-slayer Villalta, earner of $50,000 per annum for plying his trade: "I find that my audiences now expect me to completely despatch the bull in a maximum of 20 minutes. . . . Never, during my American tour, did I disappoint them...