Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexandria, La. last week a Mrs. Carolyn Willis, 64, wealthy, took Louis Paschall of Port Tampa City, Fla. as her eleventh husband. Three of Mrs. Paschall's husbands died; seven she divorced. She rid herself of her last on the ground that he was lazy, lacked ardor on their honeymoon...
...artists of the past would seem funny to us now if we could see them as they really were. If I passed away tomorrow, I'd hate to think posterity was going to laugh at me. I advise all modern film people, except possibly Charles Chaplin, to get rid of their pictures too. They will be absolutely ridiculous in 20 years...
...Cicero and Acra are different. Cicero has always been a tawdry, hard-boiled village of Sicilians and "blind pigs." Acra is a clean little Catskill settlement. Cider and applejack are home industries in that countryside. Last week Acra set about to rid itself of the slick, racketeering little rat that had run to it from the big city...
...Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would do. In his last post (Trieste) the aging adventurer made his only lucky strike?a translation of the "Arabian Nights," The Thousand Nights & A Night...
Carrion-feeding condors, sailing at extraordinary heights above the coast ranges of California, were once a common sight. They have been exterminated partly because of their proclivity for occasionally preying upon livestock, but mostly in the course of man's attempt to rid himself of wolves and foxes. These animals have learned to avoid poisoned meat, but the condors, eaters of carrion, swoop and gobble...