Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly a despatch clicked from Paris to London. His Majesty, the King Emperor, was informed that His Excellency, M. le President, could not leave France because MM. les Deputés had upset the Cabinet of M. Briand (See FRANCE...
...Angeles paper, the Illustrated News, went into receivership. Last week his Miami paper, the Illustrated Tab, failed to appear. The owner of its offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent. The same day that word of the suspension came to the press, a despatch from Paris announced that General Pershing, arriving in France to inspect war monuments, cemeteries and battle fields, had motored up from Cherbourg to Paris with his young friend of war-days, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, who had gone to France for a rest and to have his teeth* fixed...
...nominal supporters at the polls. Its real backers were more than hinted at in a widely credited rumor that Lord Lloyd had demanded, as British High Commissioner to Egypt, that if a Wafd cabinet should be formed special guarantees must be given Britain respecting Suez and the Sudan. A despatch positively asserted that he had also demanded the right to "approve" the members of any new cabinet which might be formed "in the interests of public safety...
...suddenness and completeness that boded ill to Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...
...deliberately lays a trap for the rascal in the form of a false report. Here Melville Stone's* foiling of the old Chicago Post and Mail 50 years ago is the classic model. Mr. Stone, then part owner and editor of the Chicago Daily News, printed a false despatch about some fictitiously sad distress in Serbia and ran in some supposedly Serbian words, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post and Mail, owned by the McMullen brothers, promptly stole the story in toto, were chagrined to have all Chicago...