Word: discardable
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...ensuing clash between the philosophies of the two women burns and penetrates. Logic in scarlet wins. Yet the overpowering charm of Ann Harding, the fiancee, forces her fallacies into discard and her hero, tarnished, returns. Tom Powers is the man and Fania Marinoff is the woman of the streets. While both are capable, their performances pale before the brilliancy and beauty of Miss Harding...
...Federal Reserve System, a great effort was made to create in the U. S. an acceptance or bill market similar to that in London. After reaching a climax speculatively in 1919-20, however, the acceptance business began to decline. First, the widely-urged trade acceptance went into the discard; next, the volume of bankers acceptances sharply diminished. One by one, the acceptance firms which had blossomed in the great days of our foreign trade boom four years ago lost their earlier enthusiasm. Some went over wholesale to the bond business...
...matter of conjecture, but it is doubtful if they will show much more power and finish than in the Maine defeat two weeks ago. With the University line outweighing them more than ten pounds to the man, and surpassing them even more in experience, they are wisely expected to discard a line-plunging attack...
Subsequently the actors discard the drama of gestures, speech and electricity and open fire. Although a dozen shots jab the darkness, aimed by individuals who should have known their business better, the intended recipients remain in normal health. In one last frenzied fusillade Zeno is discovered hiding right in the middle of everybody...
...would draw a twelve-inch circle around each arch and stake within which no ball is eligible to advancement for the point. Roque players throughout the country are enormously excited over the suggested innovation. Apparently roque, as the present generation has known and loved it, must shuffle into discard...