Word: rid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broke her engagement and went to France, whither Julian followed her to ask her to be his mistress. This, too, was a dusty answer to what she desired. In England she went to meet Jennifer again, but Jennifer, always an unsure idol, failed the meeting. Then Judith was rid at last of the weakness, the futile obsession of dependence upon other people. She had nobody now except herself; and that was best. . . . She was a person whose past made one great circle, completed now and ready to be discarded. Soon she began to think: "What next...
...probable that in these days of frenzied buying and selling, when every student is desirous of getting rid of his non-essentials at the highest possible price, the only persons who come out on the best side of the bargin are the asture book buyers. No Nero judging slaves ever assumed a more majestic and disdainful attitude than the average second-hand bookstore proprietor. With a regal gesture he dismisses book after book, apparently ignorant of the fact that in his window is emblazoned the legend--"All Your books bought here". Grudgingly, almost in a philanthopic manner, he will offer...
...time, when we were much occupied in getting rid of the rats in some of the Yard dormitories, we received a telephone call from the Department of Preventive Medicine. In the course of the conversation, without expecting to be taken seriously, we asked the doctor if he could use any dead rats. To our surprise he gave the matter serious thought and finally announced, "No! We use the fleas only and the fleas leave when the body gets cold...
...from the very beginning of her second paragraph, in which she states something about changing her residence, and I sincerely hope that she will cross the. State line, be it east, west, north or south, when she makes that change, as the State of New Jersey will be well rid of such...
Last week, for the first time in many a month, the "Spokesman" received no mention in conference reports. Though laymen failed to note his demise, Democratic editors and politicians cheered his death, danced on his grave. Said the New York Times: "President Coolidge ... did well to get rid of him." Said the New York World: "The deceased lived a short life but a merry one." Said Senator Norris of Nebraska, nominal Republican: "The Bolsheviks got him." Three months ago Senator Reed of Missouri had said: "Let us have done with this sham...