Word: canceling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: What I don't like about England, since Mr. Sydney Walton of London wants to know, is the way every Englishman gets around sooner or later to saying: "Now about these War debts. We're perfectly willing to cancel what the Italians and French owe us. Why don't you Americans join us in canceling War debts all round? Let's all forget the War!" I have told them over and over that since France and Italy owe them and they owe us, the only result of "canceling debts all round" would be to leave...
Immediately churchly rumormongers reported that the Pope had spoken to Mussolini, that he had spoken to England, and that an English potentate had "suggested" that the Corsair cancel its pilgrimage. The Pope, said rumormongers, did not want too great a rapprochement between Anglican and Orthodox Churches, preferring to see Jerusalem's present religious balance kept intact...
What was Al Smith doing while Hoover was swearing in? You call yourself a News-Magazine! You had better get a new nose for news. If you keep on like this you can either cancel my subscription or take me on as an editor...
...caused by an article describing students at the University of Virginia* as genial and not infrequent drinkers.† Editors of University of Virginia magazines, outraged, pledged their efforts to have the Eastern College Comics Association also repudiate College Humor. The sole other college comic association, the Western, voted to cancel all contracts with it eight months before the recent action of the Midwestern...
...shall not cancel my subscription, but I must say I have less respect for you and should hesitate to recommend you to every one. Moreover, many more such exhibitions of bad judgment, bad manners, and bad sportsmanship will finish me as a subscriber...