Word: discarder
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...Reports which controvert all the information coming from reliable sources in Rome have been traced by this correspondent to a common source, which is none other than the enterprising and resourceful Francis W. Rickett. Coming out of Ethiopia with his concession more or less in the discard, Mr. Rickett stopped twelve days ago in Rome, where he found neither official nor unofficial sources of revenue eager to take it off his hands...
...wishes he were given more opportunity to act. His role is not the most important. William Tell is played by a Swiss whose chief claim to praise is the sincerity of his performance. With its many minor faults, the picture is particularly interesting in these days of the discard of civil liberties, for which the Swiss fought as have few other people in history...
...even in the middle of a depression. It was at that time that I began waving fans about to emulate the wings of a bird. At first I wore a dress, but I soon discovered that it encumbered my movements to such an extent that I had to discard it. Of course I could have danced in my lingerie, but I think that it is indecent to appear on the stage in one's underclothes. Embarassed? No, other people don't embarass me. At any rate, Rand can never appear in costume again...
...life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light of a single book or a single lecture he is unable to account rationally for beliefs held since childhood should not lead him to discard those beliefs overnight. All too many students have lost their bearings in academic wildernesses because they have heard men with giant intellects treat scornfully ideas which had been believed implicitly...
...nude, selects another name at random which happens to be hers. From that point on, experienced cinemaddicts are not likely to derive much suspense from watching the artist's serious romance with Miss Major endangered temporarily by the jealousy of a mistress (Mady Christians) he is trying to discard and the rage of an elderly doctor (Frank Morgan) who discovers that his young wife (Virginia Bruce) was really the subject of the nude portrait. As a substitute, they may derive amusement from scenes like the one in which "Poldi" Major breaks in on the duchess' petulant gardener...