Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district of Tennessee to learn that he too was now an object of attack in the House. Representative LaGuardia, acting on complaints of Memphis citizens, queried the Department of Justice on Judge Anderson's record as to narcotic law violators admitted to low bail, only to default and disappear; as to his connection or that of his family, through loans, with the failure of American Savings Bank and Trust Company of Memphis...
...present attitude to pornography is pornographical, blames much of it on "the last century, the eunuch century, the century of the mealy-mouthed lie, the century that has tried to destroy humanity, the nineteenth century." Says Lawrence, if men had a sane feeling about sex, two things would disappear; the love lyric, the smoking-room story. "You can't do it by being wise and scientific about it, like Dr. Marie Slopes: though to be wise and scientific like Dr. Marie Stopes is better than to be utterly hypocritical. . . . The way to do it is, first, to fight...
...farmer to notice it, though he gives her much too much good advice about her worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good humor, just enough "real life" to emphasize the idyll...
...Harry Micajah Daugherty was then Attorney General. His friend Jesse Smith was openly trafficking in liquor permits and withdrawals. The late great Wayne Bidwell Wheeler warned the Drys that what little enforcement they had secured from the Treasury would disappear entirely if Attorney General Daugherty got his untrustworthy hands on Prohibition. When Harlan Fiske Stone became Attorney General, the Drys viewed him too, for all his legal merits, with suspicion. He was reckoned a New York liberal, and New York liberals were not known to favor Prohibition. Next in office as Attorney General was John Garibaldi Sargent. Over the radio...
...would appear that if the economic value of the A. M. label in secondary school teaching could be converted into that of equivalent work in a school of education, the reason for its existence would disappear. As it is now, it means very little to university faculties and nothing at all in any other profession. But the degree has a fond place in academic tradition, and it is doubtful that it will be universally discarded for many years. But at Mr. Lowell's behest, it may soon vanish at Harvard. --Boston Herald...