Word: abandonment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...
China has no government properly speaking but is the spoil of military adventurers who march and countermarch up and down tha land in a conglomerate civil war. Noteworthy, this state of affairs makes it impossible for the Powers to abandon the safeguarding of their citizens in China by the principle of extraterritoriality under which foreigners are tried before courts of their own nationals set up in China...
Only two days remain before the University skaters will abandon their conditioning work on Soldiers. Field and take to the ice of the rebuilt Boston Arena. For almost a week now, the University hockey squad has been running near the Stadium under the direction of Captain W. P. Ellison '27, and on Monday afternoon the season will actually get under way on ice. under the watchful eye of Coach E. L. Bigelow...
...that the primary purpose of the impeachment proceedings had been accomplished. Then Senator Charles Curtis moved that the Senate adjourn as a court of impeachment until Dec. 13. Since Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6, the House will have a week to confirm the recommendation of its Managers to abandon the trial of Judge English...
...Mayer told Editor & Publisher it was figured that opposition papers would spot this and would surmise the Mirror was getting ready to abandon the sensational story. Reporters in New Jersey for the Mirror informed those in charge in New York that other papers began to withdraw their men when they noticed the Mirror was asking this question. The question seemed to demand an affirmative answer...