Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seduced by his sister, married by a good girl, Gabriel's troubles seemed only to begin when he met Sophie de Monnier. The 21-year-old wife of a rich but devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger...
...story is true, this means that Nekola's days as a college pitcher are over. "The best we can do if the report is confirmed," O'Donnell said late last night, "Is to write our apologies to any colleges he pitched against after signing the agreement, and forfeit the games in which he participated after the agreement was signed...
...handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...
...once at the Bursar's Office, between 9 and 5 o'clock, it was announced last night by G. L. Lewis '30, chairman of the Senior Dormitory Committee. These cards should be signed and turned into the Bursar's Office immediately. If this is not done, the men will forfeit their rooms...
...political party which has included among its leading officials men guilty of conspiracy, fraud, and the concealment of vital evidence might well to its own advantage be deprived of power for a season. Men who for eight years have controlled the Republican party deserve to forfeit the confidence of the country. Neither the continued association of the Republican candidate with the reactionary element of the party nor his public utterances during the campaign give us any reason to believe that he has broken with that group. The best hope for a return to the liberalism of Roosevelt and Wilson lies...