Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital. Then Robert got the flu. Long before his father came back alone from the hospital, Robert guessed the worst. Both James and Robert blamed themselves, in silence, for Elizabeth's death. James thought he could not face living with his children, planned to sell the house, get rid of everything that could possibly remind him of his dead wife. Then he saw frightened little Bunny staring at him with Elizabeth's eyes...
...Stalin gets results, and soon Moscow presses were saying that Yagoda never was his creature, that the Dictator never really liked him, long wanted to be rid of him. More and more lurid stories followed, with Comrade Yagoda swelling in horrid infamy until it appeared that Ogpu evenings under him resembled Roman Saturnalia. The picture of debauchery was made to look a trifle brighter by suggesting that the Ogpu Chief's most depraved carousing and seductions came toward the close of his public career when he realized that jail was but a few jumps ahead. Item: the State press...
...Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, but the upright Masons refused him membership. "Green's Flats," his bachelor quarters above Terrell's old Harris Opera House, were one of the town's gay places. Once the Town Marshal had to tell the Colonel to get rid of the women staying there. Barked the Marshal: "I don't care if you are the son of the richest woman in the world, you can't do such a thing in this town." The Colonel gulped, did as he was told...
...love for Fancy Gap, hates the other leading citizens' pettiness and rapacity, which he believes to be handicapping the progress of his town. When he dies, knowing that Miss Quis shares his feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging evidence against them, she offers to buy out their businesses if they will leave town. Her only friend, an amiable gambler named Buster Niles (James Rennie), knocks down and fatally injures a man who accuses him of sleeping with Miss Quis...
Stacked neatly on pianos, mantle pieces and bookshelves in a million U. S. homes last week were increasing piles of cheaply printed books, bought by their owners for a few cents a volume plus coupons clipped from successive editions of their local newspapers. Having gotten rid of 14,000,000 cheap books up to last week, the number of U. S. newspapers participating in a new wave of premium circulation-getting passed the hundred mark. Most conspicuous recruit of the week was the "World's Greatest Newspaper," Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's lusty Chicago Tribune, which announced complete...