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Word: rid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't....I never....oooooh, well perhaps....but I don't see....dammitall, it was the chair....they've had these trick chairs here for just years and years....what, the place is closing?....it's a dirty lie, they're just trying to get rid of us....they think we're cockeyed....closing indeed, why it's only....well perhaps....the Somerset....a good idea....hey, my hat,....no....no....don't....it isn't that kind....hey....oh well, it was getting sort of furry looking anyway....hey taxi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Why You Have Headaches" or "Champagne, Mirabeau, and Mooseheads," in Just One Act | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

...organizations, I believe I can say that they have a very malicious effect on the mind of the student when it is in its formative stage, particularly in teaching the "inevitability of war." The student is taught to take war as a normal part of life: the efforts to rid the world of this scourge are seldom mentioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Long Have I Served . . ." | 11/5/1930 | See Source »

...Last week it was announced (by Hearstpapers) that a subscription fund aiming at $1,000,000 was being raised in the underworld to rid Chicago of Police Commissioner John H. Alcock, appointed after the Lingle killing to rid the city of gangsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lingle, Darrow | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...whereabouts of his father. To save her husband from certain death Mrs. Hart (Dorothy Revier) weepingly calls in the Law. Father Hart is caught in time by the police and sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. In prison the sore festers, he is convinced that his wife has rid herself of him in order to take up with Sheridan, his "best friend" (Matt Moore). Follows a prison break in which Hart escapes and returns to his home, vengeance-bent. As he enters he overhears his spouse retailing to Sheridan how she saved her husband from his enemies' submachine guns. Remorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...Carolina (no divorce law), New Jersey and Massachusetts. The actual court costs of a divorce are about $40. Lawyers' fees average from $250 to $10,000 in uncontested cases, depending on the wealth of each client. Exclusive of railroad fare, a woman if she is careful, can legally rid herself of an objectionable husband at Reno for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: New Freedom | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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