Word: defunction
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...railroads made Western stage coach lines obsolescent, Wells Fargo got into the railway express business. With the passing of the horse, Studebaker Carriage works survived by manufacturing automobiles. The return of beer has similarly forced the nation's underworld into evolution. As was amply evidenced last week, the defunct beer racket is swiftly being superseded as a source of criminal revenue by the uglier, more desperate crime of kidnapping. Unlike a legitimate industry, a gang which has been running beer need not modify its plant or personnel to go in for snatching. A number of people are required...
...Manhattan carried President Roosevelt's premier Braintruster. smooth, positive Professor Raymond Moley. and slashing, impulsive Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime Executive Editor of Manhattan's defunct World. Fourteen years ago red-headed dynamic Journalist Swope attended the Paris Peace Conference as a mere correspondent. Last week, out of a job but rich because of a stock market killing in 1929, he sailed as "special adviser" to Professor Moley, took along as his own private secretary Son Herbert Bayard...
Like many another Herald Tribuner Mr. Draper commutes from a home at Great Neck, L. I. (known to the staff as "Goitre") where he raises Irish terriers. At the (now defunct) Engineers' Club he played golf in the 80's. He keeps up his membership in London's Middlesex Golf Club. Last week he retired to his summer home at Chestertown, N. Y. in the Adirondacks. He wears tweedy clothes, habitually mumbles his speech around the stem of a well-caked briar pipe. At Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon where he lunches with staff mates...
...good features to recommend it. It is announced as requiring at least six hours per week. Actually, it consumes anywhere from eight to twelve, depending on the student and the particular assignment; the yellow oilcloth frequently seen hanging from the windows in the Houses contains, not bottles, but a defunct dogfish belonging to some individual who is studying Comparative Anatomy. The laboratory facilities are insufficient to handle the number taking the course, and the room is always crowded. Also, because of the numbers in the course, dissections and drawings must be completed at a regular time every week and presented...
...classics. It would be wise, on this account, to limit such a course to concentrators in English and a small quota from related fields, requiring occasional written critiques from the students. In this way a thorough and permanent course could be organized to combine the features of the now defunct course on English Critics and Critical Technique given by Professor I. A. Richards two years ago, and English 26 which Mr. T. S. Eliot is giving this year...