Word: despatching
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...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...
Seldom does Mr. Walter Duranty, able Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, indulge himself in any but the most decorous nouns and adjectives. Last week a suppressed flair for a style more incarnadine and virile apparently overcame him. He filed a long despatch, which ran in part as follows...
...love, only to learn that one of her neighbors with a sensual wife has been made a cuckold, and that her husband was the maker. Then follows the neighbor's revenge-and her own grief, wondering whose child she is to bear. It all moves with despatch to a well-planned happy ending-but unmistakably planned...
Charles Phelps Taft II,* 28, presided at the meeting with that deft assured despatch which characterized his undergraduate activities at Yale. In him the 11,000 delegates present found an earnest layman lawyer from Cincinnati, well fitted to guide in debate the laymen who control the destinies of a great Christian society. It was decided, without hair splitting or theological wrangling, that henceforth non-church members may vote in the councils of the Y. M. C. A. Previously all voting members had to belong to an evangelical church...