Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Carolina, and 2 ) Major Taylor's law partner, Thomas Miller, who subsequently became Alien Property Custodian and served a term in the Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiring to defraud the U. S. Government. Major Taylor took up where they left off. He fumigated the lobby to get rid of unsavory odors left by his predecessors and buckled down to business in a way they had never dreamed...
...Mount Pleasant, N. Y., Mrs. Hope Hitchcock, answering her neighbors' third court action against her prize English sheep dogs, testified that since the court had told her to get rid of all but a "reasonable number," she had sold 21 of her 40 dogs, quieted the rest by bedding herself in the kennels at night. In St. Paul, an unidentified woman bought an extra seat for the Civic Opera Association's performance of Rigoletto, plumped her dog in it "because he loves opera...
Bucking is not natural to horses; the poor wretches that are made to do so for the gratification of morons are so goaded and tortured that they hate the sight of man and become frenzied to the point of killing themselves, in their efforts to get rid of their abusers...
...Orleans Senator Long joyfully cried: "The only way for us to get out of this Depression is to secede from the United States. . . . We ain't going to get any place until we get rid of all those damn bureaucrats, hobocrats, autocrats and all those other crats up there in Washington. . . . Oh, it'll take us five or six years, I reckon, but we'll set up a real Utopia in this State. We've got to run our own business and not have any of those dam fol-de-rols that's going...
...pure misunderstanding. There are as yet few signs that the present administration really means to fill the Harvard faculty with men who devote their lives to the adverb in Tacitus or to the importation of bananas into Brittany during the sixteenth century, and none that it wishes to get rid of teachers who might follow in the footsteps of James, Norton, Babbitt, and their peers...