Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Names are funny, too. Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening...
...equal footing with his foreign competitors; 2) to stimulate the building of new U. S. ships by giving subsidies up to 50% of a vessel's cost to equalize the high price of shipbuilding in the U. S. with the low price abroad. Other tasks include getting rid of the rusting Wartime fleet of 162 ships left by the Shipping Board. The temporary commissioners announced in January that none of these 17-year-old tubs, unused for ten years, would be sold since that would be a "deterrent" to new building. Most will be scrapped, some kept afloat...
...sisters' Tack holdings at a profit, he failed to do as much for Del Baker. Through friends of Mickey Cochrane, Jerry McCarthy got another Tack customer in the person of a Mrs. Kathryn Smith, who bought 100 shares at $17.75 per share, saw it go up, finally got rid of it at $16.50 because she "didn't want to have it around." A sprightly witness was Mrs. Smith last week...
...head during a scrimmage; and yesterday the results of this crash were clearly evident in the beautiful shiner the Harvard leader was carrying around with him. During that game it was more than just a black eye; he got a nasty cut as well. The Lions were not rid of him, however, for he was back in there after a couple of minutes and went driving in again and again through the Columbia defense...
Apart from the fact that they all freely said they had tried to have Dictator Joseph Stalin killed, the most striking feature of the Second Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante) was the agreement of the prisoners that they had also done their best to rid Russia of darkling, high-powered Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze...