Word: abscond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Receiver. If the judge is honest, the receiver may not be. He may juggle assets and disbursements to creditors to his own benefit. He may abscond with pockets stuffed with ready cash. He may appoint a small army of assistants, attorneys, experts and examiners who do nothing more effective than materially reduce the fund for creditor distribution...
...monastery. Superstition errs; the apostate nun undergoes no stipulated censure. If she suffers at all it is from the barb of conscience or the irrelevant condemnation of busybodies. Having obtained a dispensation from Rome she may even re-enter the cloister, no matter what prompted her to abscond. Penitent, she is easily forgiven...
...that point, when Siercy has come back into Sara's life as an architect whose fine instincts are being tortured by his unhappy marriage, so that you will scarcely blame Sara for leaving child and housekeeping to abscond with him ?at that point they turn on Siercy, who was sadly dished in the first place, and they transform him into a bounder. Incapable of carrying further what they have called Romance, they revile and belittle and finally pity it. They send Siercy away in shabby disgrace and exalt dull William Henry into a nobly understanding husband who mutters modestly...
...Monday morning Laundry Bag Sweepstakes was won this week by Sing Sang Sung, formerly of East Somerville. The local boy managed to abscond with all the laundry bags in Randolph, thus setting a new interdormitory record. On the fifth landing he gained a certain victory by throwing the remaining bags out of the window to a team-mate below. These weekly competitions of the laundries are limited to no sect or nationality, and are run on a pure sporting basis. By tacit agreement the laundry bags are the lawful prize of the first comer. When the scramble through the entries...
...reasonably certain that the present class treasurer will not abscond with the money, but in case of his absence or of accident to him, the fund would be tied up. With the money payable to Harvard at Harvard, the class can be positive that the cash will be there when it comes back in 25 years to make its gift...