Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting rid of his girl. Jack Oakie makes the talkie almost as funny as the play by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, which was the most hilarious of the 1929-30 Manhattan season. The wisecracks of a cynical pianist suffer slightly in not being rendered by Harry Rosenthal, who created the role. The song...
...scene is Sumatra and the photography by Ernest Schoedsack, who helped to make Chang. Though it is nontalking except for occasional voices explaining the action, Rango is not a travelog but has a proper scenario. An old Sumatran hunter and his son have gone into the interior to rid the country of tigers. The struggle of these two humans against the jungle is a parallel of the struggle of an orangutan and its child, and this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar to man, and in this picture the relationship is derogatory...
...used to greet him: "Howdy, Arty. As one dirt farmer to another, how's crops?" The same spiteful Reed on the stump referred to him as "a steam whistle on a fertilizer factory." Two years in the Cabinet, Secretary Hyde helped to pick the Federal Farm Board to rid Florida of the Mediterranean fruit fly, to make himself silly with charges that Soviet Russia, by short sales in Chicago, was deliberately trying to depress U. S. wheat prices. Washington life has not diminished his liking for pie, buttermilk, cigars, chess, fishing in the Ozarks...
...grieves me to dilute the pleasure that must have been the contributor's upon seeing his diatribe exhibited in the CRIMSON. No doubt he feels that a step has been taken in the wiping out of a pestilence. Yet would I urge, gently, that in the future he rid himself of his surplus emotions, by, let us say, a run around the stadium. Such exercise uses up one's wind. John Morton Barnaby...
...forth and sell the stock to the public-dentists in Dubuque, porters in Portland-at the new market price. These sales will be made on an investment basis, preferably to persons not likely to throw it back on the market for some time. The bank profits by getting rid of the stock. The firm profits by the $4 difference between buying and selling price, less commissions to salesmen. Critics who are loudest in their objections to the new plan charge that, since redistributing firms will support their stocks during the process of redistribution, another artificial phase will be added...