Word: discardable
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...policy of sports for exercise and pleasure seems to be fading into the discard. The H.A.A., by withdrawing its support from minor sports, lays more emphasis on football. If a man wants both exercise and training at the same time, he will have to go out for a major sport, whether he likes that sport or not. The boast of the Hygiene Department of "Athletics for all" is rapidly becoming revised to "Athletics for all football players" or "Athletics for all who can afford them." John Dorman...
Last week the American Legion lobby, most potent in Washington, once more demonstrated its power. Of 25 Bonus bills on which it has been conducting hearings, the House Ways & Means Committee voted null to report out the Legion-sponsored Vinson Bill. Into committee discard went the famed Patman Bill, long House Bill No. 1, backed by inflationists and Veterans of Foreign Wars, twice passed by the House and rejected by the Senate. Down from his place as the House's No. 1 Bonuseer stepped Texas' Wright Patman, to be replaced by Kentucky's Frederick Moore Vinson...
...Berlin last week the Sosnowski case finally reached its grim denouement before the People's Court. This is packed exclusively with Hitler appointees, five of them aviators. Only the Realmleader can alter its judgments, which take precedence over the German Supreme Court, kicked by Nazi New Justice into discard. Normally the People's Court lets its sentences of death be known only after the guilty heads have been chopped. Last week by a great exception underground Berlin grapevines got out word that the Court had sentenced Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer to death...
...enforced unless all people agree on it, and then there is no need for the law. At present we actually ignore imposed morality. Why not discard it? That can only harm the sensibilities of its few sincere advocates...
...acting were insufficient, the story would become trivial. More specifically, any type of adventure story demands a certain type of character for its roles with the result that individual interpretations must be thrown into the discard. The struggle of the colonel, Sir Guy Standing, between devotion to the army and love for his son lends coherence to the plot. Richard Cromwell brings to the role of the son a sincerity which overcomes the unpleasant aspect of his part, a sufficient proof of his ability. The reactions of Gary Cooper as the rebellious officer and Franchot Tone as the Blues replacement...