Word: abscond
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...part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan, demands a cut. O'Hara, escaping from the general's junk, arrives in time to cut short these negotiations, but before he can find the money General Yang and his soldiers are on the scene. The elaborate pattern of violence which...
...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...