Word: oblivion
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...power of patronage, with his appointees removable at his will. If he leaves Louisiana for Washington, before the end of his gubernatorial term in 1932, Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr, his bitter enemy, will exercise executive authority to dismiss all Long appointees, to crumple the Long political machine into oblivion...
...Harry ("Skunky") Klein, 26. Last week detectives found him drunk in a Brooklyn garage once owned by "Vannie" Higgins. They arrested Klein because a Buick car in the garage had blood-splattered upholstery, contained a discharged pistol cartridge and blocks for running it over a harbor stringpiece into oblivion. Tipsy and garrulous, Klein said he was living at the Acra estate, had been wakened by strangers the previous morning at 4 a. m., told to drive the Buick to Brooklyn and find one Fred Witcher who would help him dispose of it. They were to split...
...applied for the benefit of the general public is too apt to become public property without the recognition of those individuals who made the achievement possible. Science has become popularized, but the tireless scientist receives meagre memorial. The journalistic Paul de Kruif has rescued many of these names from oblivion in his "Microbe Hunters" and later his "Hunger Fighter", published in 1928. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has told his own story, and has presented a picture, human and authoritative, which ranges from the log cabins of pioneer Indiana, to Harvard College in the seventies, German student life under...
...established, strutting and fretting across the platform was still a la mode, although on the decline. But these, along with other hoary traditions, have all but succumbed to the ravages of time. Not only has formal speaking suffered but dramatics and debating have progressed far along the path towards oblivion...
...actual funeral last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...