Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight, also lose his No. 1 Congressional spokesman. But it remained to be seen whether these two apostasies meant, as newshawks reported, that the Townsend Plan was in process of collapse. For Dr. Townsend, serene in the conviction of his messianic destiny, they apparently meant only that he had rid himself of two pushing, self-willed associates who had been trying to edge in on the power & glory which rightfully belonged to him. Promptly the 69-year-old onetime country doctor popped out with a "plan of democratic management" for Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. which he said...
...election system insures absolute honesty. Under rigidly-enforced civil service regulations, the merit system holds good in all city departments. Last year Milwaukee had only one murder, one manslaughter. Famed for incorruptibility, its police department, under a non-political chief removable only for malfeasance, has rid the city of gangsters, given it rock-bottom burglary insurance rates. Its fire department and fire prevention program have reduced fire losses from an average of $1,440 to about $256 per fire, secured for its building owners about the lowest fire insurance rates available...
...first plane, due next spring, is $500,000, for subsequent ships $250,000. By shouldering this sum jointly, the "Big Five" claim they are saving three-quarters of development expense. By creating such a fleet of supertransports, they expect to jack their passenger and express business into the black, rid themselves forever of the inconvenience of their present dependence upon Government mail subsidies...
...giving him a job that Kiepura later leaves the company when he finds the composer is also in love with Miss Swarthout. The complications intervening until the curtain can fall on the Kiepura & Swarthout reunion, after a superb aria in Romeo & Juliet, are concerned with bringing him back, getting rid of the drunken self-worshipping tenor...
...crash. Thanks to her French connections she meets aristocratic, smoothly handsome André de Verviers, and because his physical attraction is extreme, takes him as a lover-antidote. At the time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot get rid of him. What Isabelle wants is to marry Laurence, an impeccable Virginia gentleman who has gone to Paris to ask her. Life with him, she is sure, would be peaceful, quiet and no trouble. Though she hates violence, she plans and carries out a violent scene at André de Venders...