Word: oust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powerful trilogy of forces ceaselessly exert themselves to oust the bespectacled Doctor; and therefore he won a momentous point last week, by securing the extension of his contract. Against him are the old, vastly rich Persian families whom he has taxed; secondly, the many politicians whose powers he has curbed through controlling their salaries; and lastly, the numerous agents of Soviet Russia in Persia who have thoroughly satisfied themselves that Dr. Millspaugh is the chief agent of a vast Anglo-U. S. conspiracy to seize the oil and opium lands of Persia. The Doctor, although thus powerfully opposed, has greatly...
...friends of the Governor, realizing that the decision might definitely name him as having personally profited by the state fund deposit and loan, foresaw also the possibility of his enemies attempting to oust him from office on quo warranto proceedings. Such quo warranto (by what right) proceedings would have been based on the argument that Governor Small took oath as Governor while in possession of funds illegally secured during his term as treasurer, that, under such circumstances, he had no right to hold the office of Governor and should therefore be removed from it. If quo warranto action was instituted...
Early last week Dictator Ibanez demanded the Chief Justice's resignation which was refused. Only the President of Chile could declare the office of Chief Justice vacant; and naturally the President refused thus to oust his own brother, the Chief Justice. What...
...traveled the globe with his heart in his mouth, preaching salvation, singing "Where He leads me I will follow," converting thousands. In South Africa after the Boer War, Negroes and white men quivered and rose in common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During the World War, he worked with...
...able to rush off together into boundless happiness. But no-the moral ending requires that Jean and the Prince shall build anew. . . . It is entertaining fiction to read on an idle evening, despite the author's constant sermonizing on the evils of divorce. If Owen Johnson, storyteller, would oust Owen Johnson, moralist, from his works, he might resurrect the fame that was his for The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale...