Word: abandoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Danes were not above pointing out that housekeeping in the Swedish Royal household has long been sloppy. Old enough to be in his second childhood (though such is far from the case), Gustaf V does have the eccentricity of leaving valuable royal orders lying about his palaces with the abandon of a moppet tired of its toys. Awaiting royal audience, a distinguished visitor was lately amazed to observe half a dozen valuable orders of various nations strewn haphazard about the antechamber. Mused His Majesty, as the audience began in a room hung with scores of silver platters, crammed with hundreds...
...colleagues were delighted, but they did not abandon the apparatus prepared for resuscitating me in case of a sudden turn for the worse. To be harmful heavy water must be consumed, I think, in much larger quantities than I have indicated. That is only an opinion. Nobody knows anything about...
There is a strong movement on foot among the leading theological seminaries in the country to bring pressure to bear upon the various Protestant denominations to limit and ultimately to abandon altogether the habit of ordaining uneducated men to the ministry. Harvard Divinity School is backing up the Conference of Seminaries in an attempt to raise the general standard of the profession of the ministry
...burdened with a student who regards the work as a necessary evil and who prepares for his conferences with little or no enthusiasm. But to deprive worthy students of an opportunity to work with a tutor, as might happen if the Committee's suggestion was wrongly interpreted, would be abandon a policy that has made Harvard one of the foremost centers of intellectual activity...
...Administrator of the proceedings is Eddie Dowling (Joseph Nelson Edward Goucher), President Roosevelt's favorite actor and head of the entertainment division of the 1932 Democratic Campaign Committee. Early last summer Eddie Dowling announced himself as a candidate for the Democratic Senatorial nomination from Rhode Island. Persuaded to abandon this ambition, he took the stump in Pennsylvania, helped swing that State to the New Deal. In turn, rich New Dealers like Vincent Astor lent a hand in promoting Mr. Dowling's new $250,000 show. At its Philadelphia premiere, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor-elect Earle & friends were on hand...