Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a grocery store carrying a gunny sack loaded with 19 pints of whiskey (TIME, Nov. 23). Then Judge Spencer heard Mr. Leavitt explain how he had been taking a drink in the rear of the store* when somebody put the sack in his hand, asked him to get rid of it; how he did not know its contents; how he walked out the back door into the arms of Federal agents. Declared Judge Spencer: "I don't believe there's a person in this courtroom who would find this defendant guilty. He did exactly...
...help. Its chairman, Astronomer Samuel Alfred Mitchell of the University of Virginia, reported last week that it had handled 60 new cases this year, an unprecedented increase over last year's 27. Apparent reason: the fact that university heads might use the Depression as an excuse for getting rid of professors who were politically or personally distasteful. Professor Mitchell said he had been "deluged" with requests for investigation of this & that dismissal. This he deplored, as did all present. But Committee A has not been able to put its finger on any specific case of abuse. Most publicized case...
Before he knew what had happened, Mr. Leavitt found himself holding a gunny sack and into his ear a voice ? he thought it was Cliff Dailey's ? was urgently whispering: "Quick! Get rid of this! Out the back...
...tucky-bred horses have been fined down to a mettlesome nervousness highly impressive in the ring but unsuited, so their critics claim, to hardier exercise. Judges last week overlooked Antonio P. Fachiri's imported thoroughbred Rosewater, gave the Biltmore Challenge Cup, for three-gaited saddle horses suitable for park rid- ing, to Jane Bancroft's Kentucky-bred mare, Likely Lady...
Officials of the State Bank were delighted with Comrade Sklar's idea. Lawyer Recht saw it as his only chance to get rid of $3,000,000, agreed to the plan. Said...