Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...speech had to do with international War debts and leniency of creditor to debtor in hard times (see p. 16), it contained undertones such as might be found in the words of any presidential possibility. Excerpts: "We need to know more of the world as it is and to discard for ourselves, as we have for our daughters, the hoopskirts and false unfrankness of the crinoline age. . . . Our politics raises its petty barriers [the Republican tariff?] oblivious of the mighty forces which men have let loose upon themselves. . . . "Our economics are necessarily international because of our interdependence upon each other...
...Copley Theatre is closing. The talking movie has made a stock company impractical. This may be a minor incident in the life of the theatre and it may be the hand writing on the wall. Some years ago the Copley was forced to discard the plays of Shaw, Molnar, and other of the contemporary immortals, because Boston was uninterested. The company then turned to mystery plays and trivial fantasies in an attempt to conform with local dramatic appreciation. For a time it seemed that the venture would succeed. But that, too, has failed...