Word: evicting
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...where a drunken Harvard football team had been refused admittance voiced its displeasure at the undue length of this overture by stamping its feet and clapping its hands long before the conductor had given the final wave of his baton. No steps were taken by the Tremont officials to evict the originators of this original stunt, nor did the burly arm of the law interpose to silence the whistles and catcalls that encouraged Mr. Fairbanks to greater amatory efforts...
Greece, short of funds, worked out a plan of payments in land for the citizens of its pestilential slum quarter north of the Acropolis at Athens, whom it wished to evict that the greatest excavation in Europe since Pompeii might be made. Last fortnight, this digging finally began. Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton, onetime U. S. minister to Greece, turned the first spadeful of the thousands of tons of earth that will be removed from Athens' ancient Agora, or market place, the site of many temples which, though, looted by conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden...
...Meeting. The scene of the demonstration was a sunny hilltop near Fairmont. First there was a parade of men, women, children with placards "The Coal Operators May Evict Us from Our Homes, but They Can't Enslave Us," "Our Husbands are Honest-to-God Union Men," "We are Proud of our Union Daddies...
...occurred the rise of the Madhi, "Guide of Islam," whose policy was to evict the Egyptians. Then followed the defeat of the Egyptians, the murder of General Gordon, the campaign under Field Marshal Lord Wolsley and later that by an Anglo-Egyptian force under General Sir H. Kitchener (later Field Marshal Lord Kitchener...