Word: discardable
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That the show was a failure was no fault of Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough, two droll fellows who make many spectators scream with laughter. Funny man Clark did his best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this...
...Life and other magazines, newspapers and a great army of middling golfers: their fight to get the U. S. Golf Association to discard the bigger, lighter ball. New specifications, announced this week for adoption next April: 1.68 in. diameter (as at present), 1.62 oz. (the old official weight, as against 1.55 oz. this year...
...ever done, of noisy quarreling with a cantankerous Congress, of heartbreaking economic misfortune, of a blighting natural curse, of a gradual loss of popular favor. Ahead of him lay a rocky road to 1932 when he would either vindicate himself by renomination and re-election or go into the discard of defeat as a presidential failure...
...luxurious limousines of high power and speed - are going on the market for what they will bring at the end of March - the end of the fiscal year. "It was learned today the government has decided that when the spring opens, all Ministers and Deputy Ministers will have to discard their cars, which will go under the hammer. This policy is understood to embody the personal wish and instructions of the Prime Minister, who has a new car, but one which he personally paid...
...still tall and strong, balder and homelier than ever, with snapping blue eyes and a white mustache more bristly than ever, Governor Bryan frankly avows a purpose to drive out "monopolistic business." Into the discard has gone his black skull cap which made him a marked figure at the 1924 Democratic National Convention and helped win him the vice presidential nomination on the Davis ticket. Though a Democrat, his chief political support is a large bloc of independent voters who also insure the regular re-election of Republican Senator George William Norris...