Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clearly, since neither of Otto Schultzenstein's wives had sought to invalidate either marriage, the German court could do only what it did, namely dismiss Otto Schultzenstein as a guiltless and triumphant bigamist...
Since the success of the house plan either at Yale or Harvard depends eventually on its attraction for the students, it is impossible to dismiss this irreverent criticism as of little importance. It deserves analysis and the serious consideration of the authorities. One finds that it is based on the belief that the fraternities will suffer, that men of uncongenial temperament and tastes will be forced to eat and live together under the admonitory eyes of resident members of the faculty; in short, that the new dispensation will destroy the freedom as well as the landmarks of the old social...
...little learning has King Alexander of Jugoslavia as to what the rest of the world thinks of assassins. Shrewd, His Majesty ordered news of the Princip memorial suppressed, and when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons...
...Sleepless, distraught by rumblings from many sources against his regime, the Dictator impulsively drafts a circular telegram to the 17 principal Captains General and garrison commanders in Spain. He has appointed them all. He can dismiss them. He asks them whether they think he should continue to dictate, whether he still has their "confidence...
...authorized by tradition, he hesitates to deposit his overcoat with equal complacence upon the well-oiled floors of the University squash courts. Indeed, a hat in the last stages of dilapidation can be explained away as due to "indifference", but it is difficult with equal propriety to dismiss a soiled and much trampled-over topcoat as caused by a similar disregard for convention. It might well help to solve the mystery of what becomes of the ten cent charges by applying them to a a few obvious improvements such as the installation of coat hangers...