Word: abandoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Duke Cromwell, "Richest Girl in the U. S.," to bulkhead a Kaalawai Beach cove into a private swimming pool near her proposed $500,000 home. Declared the Board: "This question of great wealth being used for private ends is contrary to the public good." Annoyed, Mrs. Cromwell threatened to abandon her Hawaiian property, build her home near Palm Beach, Fla., instead...
...doors of the banquet hall were thrown open. The A. F. of L.'s 13 vice presidents filed out, newshawks and cinemen filed in. When everything was set President Green read the council's decision. Suspension for ten C. I. O. unions within 30 days, unless they abandon their organization.* Said Mr. Green...
...Councils, Communist Herbert Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were finally thrown out by police for their bad manners (TIME, May 4). Last week's Harrisburg extravaganza was on a pattern rapidly becoming standard practice whenever a State Legislature stalls on jobless relief...
...incarnation, to most Spiritualists a controversial subject, Spirit Brandon is positive. He declares spirits may, if they are smart, abandon their memories of their last life and return to earth as a new personality in a new body. As developed by Astral scientists and practiced with the aid of seasoned Astral physicians, the simplest method involves merging any spirit with the body of an earthly infant of five to eight weeks. "The act," reports Spirit Brandon, "requires the physician to see, in his mind's eye, the spinal cord of both the child and the soul...
Apparently Icelanders were country bumpkins to sophisticated medieval Norwegians. Without realizing what he was doing, Ljot allied himself with old Gunnar's enemies, could not visit his sweetheart at Vadin. They poisoned his mind against her. until in the shameful abandon of defeat he made up a song slandering her. Vigdis had been willing to marry him until she heard" it. When she agreed to a last meeting, turned Ljot away forever, he raped her and fled. She bore his child. Gunnar's enemies taunted him with his disgrace, killed him and burned his house...