Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still with me.'" Quentin was also with him then- poor little "Quinikins," who was later shot down in an aeroplane over the German lines. "The day the news of Quentin's death came, Mr. Roosevelt was at Oyster Bay. . . . after reading the despatch, he carried the sad tidings to his wife. Then he put his arm around her waist and together they walked in silence down the path which led into the woods. Down that path I had seen them go so many times together, just like this, his arm around her waist, as attentive as a young...
...Prince, Sir Hari Singh, was detected in intimate residence with a "Mrs-. Robinson" at Paris (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924, LAW) the world reverberated with the scandal of his trial under an alias, "Mr. A." Yet last week, sentimentalists from Benares to Boston scanned with moist-eyed approval a meagre despatch from India...
...erstwhile young scapegrace, it was touted, has brought back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and skillful British advisers. The late Maharaja, Sir Pratap Singh, has not been long in his grave (TIME, Oct. 5, MILESTONESQ, and the coronation of his nephew, Sir Hari (TIME, March 8), occurred so recently as to preclude $150,000 increase in the Kashmir forest revenues by any "Western" method- except...
...were to be subject to new, stricter parole and commutation rules. In the detention cells of many counties, yeggs and firebugs, stickers and rodmen, auto thieves, foot-pads, forgers and dips were clamoring to plead guilty, waive their defenses, and be let into the big "pen" with all despatch. By the end of the week Sing Sing was crammed like a seaside hotel, its accommodations for 1,540 guests overflowing with 1,561 and more to come. About 1,800, in all, were expected...
...could remember Romancers Jules Verne or H. G. Wells having compassed a greater imaginative flight than Herr Rumpler. Yet many a newspaper reader with an open mind about the future filed away the despatch from Dusseldorf for their grandchildren to muse over some...