Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doesn't much matter whether someone fires an academic administrator every now and then. President Conant was quite right when he made the distinction between ousting a professor and getting rid of a president. It will probably do a lot of college presidents good to realize that they don't hold life terms. The old bug-bear of academic freedom doesn't come in to this...
Peasant-Conservative Batista, who has long been set on getting rid of head-in-the-clouds democratic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias, blatantly dragooned the Cuban Senate last week into voting the President out of office. The trumped-up impeachment charge against President Gomez was "interference with legislation.'' though he had done nothing worse than veto Batista's sugar-tax bill. Since this bill had been engineered by Batista from the beginning, the charge of "interference" struck many Cubans as ironical, but with the Army behind Batista the politicians promptly impeached and ousted Gomez...
...fate of all Kings' mistresses will soon be yours!" This was written on an expensive letter card, Mayfair-postmarked, and three days later Mrs. Simpson received an identical card in the same typewriting which read: "Had you been living 200 years ago, means would have been found to rid the country of you. but no one seems to possess the courage required to order you back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall...
...which doctors recognized as the history of a case of vitiligo, a harmless but mysterious skin condition which an occasional Negro develops. "About 30 years ago I had a little pimple on my forehead," said Will White. "I went to the barber shop and got some medicine to get rid of the pimple. Next morning I woke up with pimples all over my face. The medicine wasn't no good. The pimples kept coming and going. When they'd go they'd leave a white spot." The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed...
...keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show its face again in the Congressional elections of 1938 or the Presidential campaign four years from now. That it was so thoroughly discredited this year is not because it was dishonest or unfair in its motives...