Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daniel Jenkins became a Baptist minister. Soon Minister Jenkins preached a sermon on "The Harvest Is Great but the Labor ers Are Few." persuaded his congregation to help him found an orphanage for poor black moppets. That was in 1891. Daniel Jenkins proceeded to rid Charleston of its roaming, thieving "Wild Children." In two buildings in the city, in farms and schools outside it, he has cared for as many as 536 orphans at a time, today has some 300 in his charge. Of the thousands of Negroes turned out of the Jenkins Orphanage at 14, he claims that less...
...production of 11,800,000 bales. That estimate was well under the big crops of the late 1920's, but it was 2,100,000 bales larger than last year. With world consumption of U. S. cotton down to 12,250,000 bales, the chance of getting rid of any worthwhile portion of the 8,700,000 bale surplus this year was reduced to practically zero...
...country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That's the truth. I hope to God I might be struck dead if that isn't the whole truth-the whole expose of the whole business...
...Bruhl believes that philosophers looking for some obscure moral or esthetic urge to explain the primitive horror of incest are on the wrong track. Incest frightens the savage because it is abnormal, and the perpetrators are put to death not so much to punish them as to rid the community of vulnerable points through which evil forces may break...
...strange monopoly. The new Minister of Labor is bourgeois, Bible-quoting Ernest ("Bashan") Brown, the loudest and fastest talker in the House of Commons. Very quietly last week good Mr. Brown did his duty as he saw it. Grosvenor House and Dorchester House were given two weeks to get rid of their 26 U. S. dancing girls, and a Minister of Labor spokesman explained nothing by frostily explaining: "It has been a general policy not to give working permits to foreign cabaret artists. Heretofore, we have been making an exception in these two cases." "Before these American girls came over...