Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the reading period the Vagabond is able to dispatch all his mundane business in the course of the day, unhampered as he is by the press of lectures. In the evenings he is left free to wander carelessly in those sequestered spots which fancy dictates. Upon occasion the lights of Boston "flaring like a dreary dawn" beckon him over the river to while away the evening hours. In the course of his peregrinations intellectual needs often give way to the more physical delights of food and nourishment. The old fellow has happened upon many an interesting and delectable dish...
...Orthwein II, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Kelley and a cousin of young Adolphus Busch Orthwein. And there was the most intense rivalry in the local press, notably between St. Louis' two famed newshawks, Harry Thompson Brundidge of the Star, and John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch. Brundidge had scooped the town on the Adolphus Busch Orthwein case...
...this time it was Reporter Rogers' turn. Last week, on the eighth day after the kidnapping, he summoned William Orthwein to his (Rogers') home, presented to him Dr. Kelley. There they stayed until the Post-Dispatch had an extra on the streets, screaming: DR. KELLEY RELEASED TO POST-DISPATCH MAN. Some hours later the doctor was escorted to his home, where he told all reporters what the Post-Dispatch had already printed in infinite detail...
Rogers caught sight of a man standing alone in an abandoned filling station, blindfolded. He went to him?Dr. Kelley?and was told: "The men who let me out here said John Rogers of the Post-Dispatch will take you home. Do what he tells...
Various fantastic aspects of the case remained uncleared last week. The family stoutly denied a persistent report that $100,000 ransom had been paid. Xo other motive for the kidnapping was offered; no explanation of why the Post-Dispatch and Reporter Rogers were selected to reap the glory (Rogers was given a bonus of one year's salary?said to exceed $6,000?for his scoop). Opposition papers boldly hinted that the Post-Dispatch was withholding