Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children of divorced parents, their hardships, and their attempts to reconcile their elders is not a particularly new theme--and it can be deadly if the soft soap is laid on too thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...
...Congress the President sent the report of his Great Plains Committee recommending that a long-range drought program be developed and adopted. From his special Farm Tenancy Committee he received a report recommending a long-range program to rid the country of the evils of farm tenancy. Both programs are of vast scope, indefinite outline...
...agent for Congress, Silas Deane, arrived in Paris to buy munitions, Beaumarchais said nothing about the money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco. Paine refused to believe Deane's story, called him a "plodding, plotting, cringing mercenary," and Congress got rid of Paine to avoid exposing France's breach of treaty with England over the loan...
...commands to editorial underlings in Manhattan. Last year the Falmouth teletype flashed to Liberty one of Editor Oursler's decisions : to publish the "inside story" of Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the garrulous Bronx schoolmaster who projected himself into the Lindbergh kidnapping case and helped Colonel Lindbergh get rid of $50,000 to no avail. A guest at West Falmouth, "Jafsie" had convinced Editor Oursler, who candidly admits his magazine function is primarily to entertain the publie, that he had "new material" to reveal...
...Trotsky Must Die!" Stalin in 1929 decreed the expulsion of Trotsky from Russia to Turkey, where Trotsky arrived loudly protesting. Declared Volkswille, the official organ of the German Communist Party then: "Trotsky must die, but Stalin does not dare to get rid of him in Russia. . . . Therefore Trotsky is to be taken to Turkey, where it will be easy to murder...