Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitchcock took the game's first bad tumble, his pony rolling over him, pinning his right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner's alert abandon, helped account for all three of the East's first chukker goals. Then red-helmeted Hopping slammed his pony unchecked into rangy Boeseke, rolled him to the ground and his pony over him. With a twisted right ankle, Boeseke played on. A foul was called and the West scored...
...while eel-hipped, coffee-skinned Josephine Baker wriggled with abandon through the scenes of Shuffle Along, an obscure young Negress in the chorus named Catherine Yarborough was saving her subway nickels by trudging from the stage door on 63rd Street to her dingy $3.50-a-week room on 137th Street. Few years later, both women migrated from Broadway to Europe, the racy Josephine to gaudy fame in the Casino de Paris, Catherine Yarborough to drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro...
When two polar bears in Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo ducked and drowned a small black bear last autumn (TIME, Nov. 7), the Zoo's Director Edmund Heller was indulgent. He compared the duckers to playful small boys, did not even feel it necessary to abandon his experiment of keeping various kinds of bears and wolves together in large open dens...
...abdicate and place all power of decision in the Mahatma's hands. Before he began to speak such action seemed impossible. The committee knew that Viceroy Willingdon, a sahib of iron will, has refused to treat with either the Congress or with Mr. Gandhi until his followers formally abandon mass civil disobedience. Nonetheless the committee could not resist the Mahatma. By an overwhelming majority, they appointed Mr. Gandhi to treat with Lord Willingdon, resolved that mass civil disobedience shall continue until an "honorable settlement" is reached. They made the Mahatma sole judge of what sort of settlement would...
...ante). Chase through its oldtime officer Edward Richmond Tinker tried to run the company from Wall Street, but after four months it called in Paramount's able Sidney Kent, made him president. Chairman Tinker stayed on to work out a financial reorganization. Last week Chase was ready to abandon its position as a patient creditor and frankly take over its investment of some $35,000,000 in the cinema industry. Mr. Tinker resigned, and Chase left Fox to the Hollywood management of Sidney Kent...