Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally convinced was the State public that pasty-faced Jack ("Legs") Diamond, on trial at Troy, was guilty of torturing Farmer Grover Parks because of an applejack-whiskey war. Carefully Attorney General John James Bennett Jr., specially ordered by Governor Roosevelt to rid the Catskills of gangsters (TIME, May 11), had prepared evidence that Diamond himself strung the farmer up himself lit matches and held them under the farmer's wriggling feet, himself set fire to Parks's old-fashioned underdrawers. Three State witnesses placed Diamond near the scene of the crime around the time it happened. Five...
Even Dr. Curtius' own People's Party seemed to want to get rid of him (his popularity has waned since he "bungled" the Austro-German customs union scheme). At a hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...
Harvard Yard officers called the Animal Rescue League to rid them of the disturbing influence. Tree-Climbing experts arrived shortly and finally succeeded in climbing to a point where they were able to lasso the unfortunate raccoon, which was promptly carried off to the quarters of the Rescue League...
Year ago in Los Angeles appeared a new local monthly magazine called The Critic of Critics. Its announced aim was "to rid the city of such persons as Mayor Porter, Rev. Robert ["Fighting Bob"] Shuler, and show up other long hairs who try for fame or money by limiting personal liberty of Americans." In ensuing months the scope of the publication grew wider, its purpose less clearly defined. A typical article of last month's issue was "Guy McAfee, 'Capone' of L. A."-an expose of the purported vice-reign of Former Policeman McAfee. The magazine...
...machinations by which Rodelinda, the Lombard Queen, rid herself of imposters and became reunited with Bertaric, the rightful king, were by no means the most important aspect of the performance. Handel's plot is blatantly conventional, works its way out leisurely. The imported soloists, headed by Soprano Mabel Garrison, and the choristers from Smith and nearby Amherst wore conventional wigs and furbelows. It was Handel's clear, direct music and the finish with which it was given that won Rodelinda highest praise yet for a Smith premiere from the metropolitan critics. The orchestra, composed mostly of Smith girls...