Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the authorities are fully alive to the present situation, but the mills of the gods grind slowly. The effective method of enforcement is by the refusal of the students themselves to patronize those who illegally call at their rooms, and to cease the practice of signing merely to rid themselves of an unwelcome and over-persistent guest. In this manner, and with the help of the authorities the rules will be upheld, and the question of competition decided, as is only right, on merit alone...
...Photographers point for faces & figures. Tabloid and Hearstmen go after "cheese-cake"?leg-pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?pretend to take a picture, but without a plate in the camera...
...starving, making enemies, running up debts, a "haggard, shabby, shy, priestly-visaged individual" with a bitter tongue, a growing obsession that there was a conspiracy against him. Attracted by his esoteric learning, his writings, his often brilliant conversation, people took him up, helped him, paid dearly to get rid...
Regarding the murder of the little Chancellor, just what would be the sporting thing to do, should you want to rid your nation of a dictator who substitutes machine gun and noose for public support...
...walls of the museum were men who had been friends and enemies. Sir William Phips made his fortune by discovering a wrecked Spanish treasure ship. An incompetent, wasteful Governor of Massachusetts, he was hanging near his friend William Stoughton whom he appointed chief justice of a special tribunal to rid the land of witches. In 1692 Phips, alarmed at Stoughton's wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders. Enraged, Stoughton "refused to sitt upon ye bench." Stern was the face of Governor John Endecott who could abide neither tobacco nor people who needed haircuts and who once...