Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chimney and hanging signs under the clouds. Some people can never find a niche for themselves in the dull trades of "butcher, baker, and candlestick maker". It is India, however, which lays claim to the most unusual callings-at least if one may judge from a Lucknow dispatch, which describes the work of the Monkey Deporter, the Corpse Fender, and the Shahbash-Wala...
...occupation of mines and industrial districts; then it was to be operation of the mines and plants; next complete occupation and the entire cutting off of the Ruhr; then the operation of all the railroads temporarily, next their indefinite occupation. On February 9 the 'New York. Times' dispatch read: 'Poincare Says Ruhr Won't Be Exploited', but since March 1 it has been the universal admission that the Ruhr will be exploited...
...second event is an increase of the occupational forces by 15,000 men as a result of violence displayed lately in the Ruhr. Fear of guerrilla warfare is also a reason for the dispatch of these French reinforcements...
Still, there is some comfort left. The same dispatch that announces this epoch-making event also states that no detailed report of the test was made. No doubt the examiner feared the outburst of parricides and infanticides that must surely follow if he should set son against father and father against son with the report of "better' or "worse"; and decided instead to cool the smoldering fires with a soothing "satisfactory...
...task of such honor societies as this Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and especially our own Carnegie Foundation, to try to find some reward for these services, or at least to give them their due honor. But if the dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death...