Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jealous Legs who first discovers that his rival is the convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...
...Correct English" is an unrealistic, pedantic legend, and the quicker we get rid of it, the better. For authorities I refer the Doctor to any elementary course in linguistic science, and to Dr. Edward Sapir, [Sterling professor] of the Yale University Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and head of a committee to bring out a New English Grammar to describe the language as it really is instead of for harassing school children with artificial, pseudo-classical prescriptions and "rules"-or to anybody who has at least an inkling of the true nature of language and its principles...
...after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative and political machine of France, to rid it of blocs, to break with deep-rooted traditions, is likely to be disappointed...
...mummy the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who had ruled China since 1861, felt that she had not long to live. A prisoner on an island in the Imperial City was her nephew, the 37-year-old Emperor Kuang Hsu whose offense had been to attempt to modernize China and rid it of the burden of its old mandarins by the device of asking them all to commit suicide. On Nov. 14, 1908 two of the Old Empress's guards are said to have broken into Kuang Hsu's apartments and strangled him. As his successor the old lady...
Through all of them runs the western impress of practicality; the bocca della verita was an eminently useful contrivance, and Virgil's talismanic glass fly was used, not to confound the people, but to rid their meat markets of flies and their cities of infection. A magician Virgil was, but a magician with a purpose, a great seer who bent his black art to the relief of human misery and the improvement of human society, and who had his place in the cosmic optimism of the middle...