Word: despatched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, an expected baby again appeared as a news item. The despatch, sent by the Associated Press wire, was dated from Chicago. Who in Chicago was important enough to have an impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain...
...matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...
...remote and ultima Thulish is Mongolia, the land which partially bounds China on the north, that last week the following delayed courier despatch loomed in the North China Herald as hot news...
Last week the New York Times printed the following dramatic despatch from Washington, Pa.: "Totally blind since she was less than a year old, 13-year-old Mary Grabowsky, second daughter of Walter Grabowsky, a poor miner of Coal Center, this county, walked out of the Washington Hospital today, scarcely able to conceal her delight and asking officers of the Red Cross to hurry her home that she might see her mother for the first time...
...scientists this despatch lacked professional interest. Such an operation, although delicate and demanding high skill in the use of fine knives, had been done previously and with relative frequency. But rarely before had human interest been keyed to so lofty a pitch...