Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better get rid of Eddie Morris. He certainly raised a laugh from the crowd on Saturday when he announced the results of the 3200-metre run. Ruby Rob Playfair took the event and Charlie Woodard followed him into the finish...
...little egg-shaped Negro with a small, sharp, smiling face went the rounds of Manhattan bankers. For two weeks Haiti's President Stenio Vincent tried to get a refunding loan of $11,000,000 so that he could pay off Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan...
...little son Michael, his brother Nicholas and Queen Mother Marie, would go to worship in the 270-year-old Cathedral, which stands high above Bucharest's gardens and gilt cupolas. Someone would throw a grenade, another and another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would be to go to the villa hard by the king's palace and kill red-haired Magda Lupescu, the Jewess whose company Carol cannot long do without, whose power over Carol...
Nevertheless, King Carol last week drew a ring of loyal troops around his palace. Queen Mother Marie asked him, please, to get rid of Lupescu and remarry his divorced wife Helen. The Cabinet formally asked him to send Lupescu away. Lupescu herself, badly frightened, offered to leave Rumania, if that was all his enemies wanted. But Carol assured her confidently that things were not so bad as that. On that one point he was every inch a king: he decreed that indispensable Mile Lupescu must...
...simple-minded Harriet for her money, he thought not only of himself but of his artist brother and his lovely sister-in-law. At first the money was enough, but later each of the group thought how much better it would be without Harriet, contrived ways to be rid of her for good...