Word: disown
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...Other developments in a week of early season activity included a rumor that Princeton would disown the famed huddle-system which it began to use long before its puzzled rivals. Also the sixth and seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing...
...course, it is very fine for the Republican National Committee and the Republican Chairman to disown all this. It is very easy for them to say, 'We disclaim knowledge of it and responsibility...
...enough not to quote that sentence from Mr. Broun in your Sacco & Vanzetti story (TIME, Aug. 15). All good Americans should know that Mr. Broun is the most blasphemous son Harvard ever had. And I hope that all good Harvard men as well as the New York World will disown...
...again lost the Prohibition issue, to the serious statistics and idealism of dark-skinned silver-tongues from Lincoln University. Speaker Turner of Lincoln made obeisance to the fame of Oxford, mentioning Poet Tennyson as one of her illustrious graduates. Speaker Franklin of Oxford, replying with thanks, was obliged to disown Lord Tennyson, who went to Cambridge. "And Oxford," he added, "is a seat of learning and wouldn't consider Cambridge for a patch...
...office is unqualifiedly false. I am the only man authorized to authoritatively speak for the Klan, and I solemnly affirm that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are not in politics and I solemnly deny that any political party will be allowed to attach, own or disown the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...