Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bedfellows in the public press: Benny the Alligator, James the Polecat, The (Sacred) Owl, the (Sacred) Ibis, and other stuffed nonsense. Weary of swinging in the winds of State House oratory, the grand old effigy could have taken its leave, alone and in honor. It deserved better than to disappear with a zoo-full of mildewed bridge-prizes. For the sacred cod, aloof and unsullied, is no kin to these doubtful deities, these gods brought down to the market-place...
...time to realize that the Soviet Union is a fact which has got to be reckoned with, that cannot be made to disappear by incantations of abuse. ... I do think, however, that something might be done for the removal of phenomena unnecessarily aggravating our relations and prolonging the world crisis. ... I may describe my proposal as a kind of economic non-aggression pact. It will at least serve as evidence of the readiness of the Soviet Union to adhere to the principle of the peaceful co-existence of the two systems [Communism & Capitalism] and of having no aggressive intentions, whether...
...letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman to demand a duel (illegal in Cuba). Aleman chose seconds and primed his pistols. Groaning, President Gerardo Machado sent for Brother Carlos, told him to disappear until the bicker had been settled...
...line of least resistance will obviously recommend the Center to the new American student in Paris, and will make it easy for him to practice group insulation. Thus a very large part of the value of study abroad must disappear, for one may hear mere lectures delivered in French as well in Cambridge as in Paris. Educational critics have long attacked the self-consciousness of the American student abroad, and his unfortunate tendency to establish an exclusive colony of friends in a single pension. Such a project as the present one, which contemplates the enshrinement of this separatism...
...necessity. Her groom jilts her for a dark, rapacious beauty he has met abroad. "Well," sardonically observes Actress Bankhead, "anyhow, Jesus loves me." The indecisive groom forsakes his new wife for his old girl, goes to Mexico with one of his friends (Fred Keating, who used to make birdcages disappear and eat needles while conversing glibly) to get a quick divorce. But this time Actress Bankhead changes her mind, a bit of luck for Magician Keating...