Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, Mr. Bergdoll's mother cautiously opened her door "by the width of a pencil" when visited by reporters. They poked an account of her son's arrest through the slit. After reading the despatch, Mrs. Bergdoll replied through the door: "I don't believe a word of it! When I was in Germany with him, he went around with a lot of young people but he never used to go with girls of the sort who would have him arrested. I don't even believe that he's in jail. He would have cabled...
Late in the week a despatch from Bucharest reported: "It is now openly rumored that King Ferdinand countermanded the order of Prince Babu Stirbey for the arrest of Deputy Filipescu. . . . The abdication of Crown Prince Carol is now widely interpreted as a protest against Prince Babu Stirbey's having compromised his mother and made his father appear ridiculous...
...contemporary the World printed yesterday morning on its front page in the guise of a news despatch from Washington an article designed to belittle the Colonel House memoirs which begin in this newspaper next Sunday...
...Scene. A huge room be-frescoed in tarnished red and gold -the Great Hall of the British Foreign Office. At either side three tall windows, dull-bright with winter sunshine. Down the centre a huge table, covered with blue baize and vermilion-splashed by three official despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above...
...desire of His Majesty's Government to get into conference with the Governments of India and the Dominions. That was not found possible. I will make bold to say that it is totally impracticable to treat matters of this great consequence, covering so wide a range, by despatch or cable across thousands of miles of ocean. . . . The Dominions and India have been left free to take their own action. . . . The whole matter will be brought up at the next Empire Conference...