Word: discard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When someone tells him he has made a clumsy sequence, Lubitsch says, "I wanted it that way," trumps up a complicated reason. He says: "I discard rules in making pictures. . . . Whatever fits best...
...rulers are limiting that unique feature of democracy, free speech, and this limitation in turn is aggravating the unrest. One must agree with Mr. Bliven that the normal human being prefers the application of his theory to open discussion about it. Consequently, when one group of people wants to discard a system, say, of government, and another wants to retain it, they fight each other by fair methods or foul. Boiled down, the principle always practiced is that the end justifies the means. One of the means followed in warfare; another is suppression of free speech...
...memorial services in Frankfurt-am-Main there were no brothers or sisters. Her niece. Princess Victoria Louise, was there with the ex-Crown Prince and Prince Eitel Friedrich. With the death of Sophie there remained in the European deck only 17 queens, ten in play, seven in the discard...
...equal stature has dared to labor avowedly for that goal. It is true that the wholeheartedness of his zeal for that goal may reasonably be doubted, for M. Briand was first of all a Frenchman. He seemed at times, with the intense nationalism of his race, ready to discard his great conception to preserve the temporary dominance of France. His attitude to Germany was a curious oscillation between friendship and an involuntary suspicion. But it must be remembered that he had always to account for the traditional French distrust of German motives. And he was bitterly attacked by a press...
This sentiment was reflected last week by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, smart Republican politician, in her Rockford (Ill.) Register-Republic which declared that "Mr. Hoover is not a popular leader." Her paper advised leaders to discard the practice of renominating a President just because he was in the White House, to stop "following the political methods in vogue when father was a boy." Five days later the Register-Republic declared: "Illinois gives you Charles Gates Dawes for President...