Word: dump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wing; so was Archie's father; so was Archie's grandfather; just so all Inches, by birth, tradition, inheritance, were white wings. Alas! that the horse must go the way of all flesh, that the inhuman horseless carriage should sweep up yesterday's honored white wings, dump them in the rubbish can of outworn traditions. Mary (Winifred Lenihan), faithful to her father's revolutionary gas-buggy, loves and will always love Archie, the Quixotic, uniformed champion of the horse. Of course, when Mary shoots Josie, the last horse, there is nothing more for Archie...
Bananas In Perth Amboy, N. J., Michael Patonick, 11, unfastidious son of a local junk dealer, found 15 unripe bananas in a city dump, ate all of them, fell over unconscious...
...want to express the appreciation many of us here feel for your way of editing the news. You treat affairs like an artist. . . . The dailies dump the news. We scan their columns and wait for TIME to tell. For you present affairs in a way that arouses interest, even causes emotion. Then your English is so finished! It reminds me personally of what Anatole France recounts of Denon and Louis XV: "When anything happened, the monarch would say, 'Tell us about it, Denon...
...Most serious to community welfare is the attitude of thousands of parents who dump responsibility of their children's physical, intellectual, civic and moral development almost entirely upon the schools. The community cannot continue its traditional custom of turning these youths loose to shift for themselves through a long summer recess...
Last week, it was the turn of New York City to be reprimanded. In 1917, one of that city's garbage-reduction plants was destroyed. A special permit was granted by the War Department to dump garbage at sea. Great scows heaped with offal are towed out of New York Harbor, out beyond Sandy Hook, to a point 14 miles from the coast of Long Island and 22 miles from New Jersey. There the offal is consigned to Father Neptune...