Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British side. In the House of Commons this week, the Opposition, which had been crying "Shame!" at the Prime Minister and stressing "friendship" for Czechoslovakia without proposing measures of succor, was politically thunderstruck. It was obvious that the Czechs & Slovaks may find it good business to get rid of 3,250,000 Sudeten Germans in exchange for a loan of $150,000,000−or about $46 per blond Sudeten squarehead. The startled House could not but suspect that smart Dr. Benes had been secretly tipped off by Mr. Chamberlain beforehand as to how much wiser it might prove financially...
...Playfair then carefully washed the Prince's hand with ammonia to get rid of any grease that might...
...mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems on turbulent motion still remain, but Wiener's enthusiasm for harmonic analysis was so intense last week that California Tech's famed Eric Temple Bell was moved to cry: "Who will rid me of this turbulent fellow...
Variety gradually came home from its crusade, but fortnight ago the American Federation of Actors, setting out to unionize the 312 carnivals in the U. S., took up Variety's dusty cudgels. A.F.A.'s aim: to clean up carnivals first, sign them up second, get rid of such entertainment...
...this meeting and several which followed the Janizaries decided, with Franklin Roosevelt's full knowledge and approval, that the Democratic ranks in Congress must be rid of unfaithfuls. that is, men like Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, which was just then holding up the Wages-&-Hours Bill a second time. Putting over a reform program in Congress without a thoroughly obedient majority was tedious if not impossible. The Florida and Oregon primaries were coming up. The Janizaries would teach Democrats unfaithful to the New Deal to watch their step. The Janiz ary James...