Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abandon New Game...
...this ceremony, Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur will leave her pots and pans* will abandon her clothes line, will travel (presumably in a parlor-car), will provide herself with a champagne-model gingerbeer bottle, will crack it upon the very front and prow of the unfinished hulk...
Weight. At the other end of the string, was a German offer to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression in a treaty between Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany (TIME, Mar. 16). The offer tacitly agreed to abandon any claim to Alsace and Lorraine, and was in the nature of a frank recognition of the status quo. The Eastern frontier (i.e., the German-Polish-Czecho-Slovakian boundary) was specifically left for final settlement through arbitration...
...experiment. Doubtless the same, only to a larger degree, would hold true of purely undergraduate efforts. The foreign plays which the Dramatic Club has hitherto produced have been well past the testing stage--have been the work of playwrights whose creative powers have reached a dramatic maturity. To abandon the latter seems regrettable. But disregarding the mooted wisdom of the decision, the Dramatic Club is to he commended for its honest effort to meet the needs of the present situation, instead of adding to the crowded files of ineffectual protest...
Consider, too, the sociological import of such an event. The working man may abandon overalls in favor of riding breeches, after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York...