Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sire, you must send away Mme Lupescu," he told scapegrace Carol II. "Also you must dismiss your private secretary and four other Court officials. Here is the list...
...later ousted as sole receiver by bankers who put in two of their own co-receivers. They promptly sued Founder Backus for $7,000,000. That was too much for Founder Backus. Last week in Minneapolis he launched a mighty campaign for a comeback. He asked the court to dismiss the receivers, charging them with gross mismanagement, inefficiency and squandering some $12, 000,000 of Minnesota & Ontario's assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with...
...criticize the absurd caricature of Professor W. C. Abbott set forth in the October 19th copy of your paper. Of his fondness for milkshakes and black canes, I know little and care even less. Perhaps his generosity to the blind newsdealer offsets his smug self-complacency. But to dismiss his contributions to historical scholarship and his activities as a teacher as "dull" or trivial shows a singular ignorance of the former, and a failure to appreciate the real wisdom underlying his teaching methods...
...important speech, Chilcote calls on the. cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock (Halliwell Hobbes) is party to the deception, helps prolong it until Chilcote is dead and Loder has nothing but a War scar on his wrist to remind him that he has been a masquerader...
...feel like a personal friend. A strong exponent of the "Athletics for All" policy, he has built up an unexcelled athletic plant at Harvard. Despite the growing importance of inter-House sports, he feels that intercollegiate competition is still an essential part of the athletic program. He refuses to dismiss coaches merely because their teams have a few bad seasons. Although Harvard has pursued an athletic policy which, in comparison with those of other institutions, has been the epitome of sanity, Bingham is probably unique among athletic directors in admitting that in the years of million dollar gate receipts-money...