Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offset that, however, my social popularity has increased as much as if I had learned to play the piano, gotten rid of halitosis, used Lifebuoy, or spoken to the waiter in French...
...Casey, Walsh, and Fesler have produced a frontier that would rate on any man's ball club. Defensively there was little to be desired--except in one fatal department. Of course Hobin is a super passer, but just the same, he was given altogether too much time to get rid of the ball. The Crimson ends were not getting into the Holy Cross backfield fast enough to bother Hobin...
...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...
...from the public." Instead, working down from Generalissimo Chiang himself, "the movement should be started first from oneself and gradually be extended to others. It should be started with simple matters (good manners and cleanliness) and gradually extended. . . . [Thus] it is hoped that rudeness and vulgarity will be got rid...
...Once rid of its skin, the reptile will resume its menu of dead goldfish, which its Sophomore master wheedles from the ten-cent store, and will resume its role as Exhibit A in Mr. Folk's lectures on snake-lore...