Word: defunction
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Having died these four deaths urbanely -and being in fact still politically defunct last week-M. le Senateur Joseph Caillaux rode on through the blinding fog, trusting, as rich men will, to a harassed chauffeur who had been told to hurry...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. received from his father and mother a check for $1,000,000 to pay off the creditors of his defunct tabloid newspapers. One million, two hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars of his heritage was also released for him to repay persons who lost money in backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary...
Limitation. Closely paralleling President Coolidge, the German Foreign Minister flayed Britain and France for concluding their now happily defunct Naval & Military Pact (TIME, Nov. 5 et ante). "If the two Powers had made such a pact really binding," he declared, "they would have violated the Locarno Treaty" (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) whereby Great Britain pledged aid to Germany no less than France to preserve the peace of Europe...
Ghost Grey reverberantly charged that, although the Pact is now defunct, it has so embittered Anglo-U. S. relations that only the most reassuring moves by the British Government can win back U. S. goodwill...
Composed entirely of accepted modernist leaders, the exhibition proved that the freakishness of cubism, vorticism, other truculent cults, is quite defunct. There was little that was crude, nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor of the piece was queer but clear. He displayed also a serene Breton landscape, a lovely canvas which could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother...