Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present salaries of Canterbury and York: ?15,000 and ?9,000 ($60,000 and $36,000) respectively. Nearly all of this goes for income tax and upkeep of their official palaces-the kind of expenditure which the Bishop of Ely, when vainly trying to get rid of his palace in 1939, called keeping "too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...
...between 24 and 50, have the endorsement of their denomination. No man over 40 can be assigned to an Army Air Forces unit, none over 45 for duty overseas. Despite every precaution, a certain number of chaplains do turn out to be misfits. Customary Army method for getting rid of them is quick, quiet and effective: get the denomination to withdraw its sanction. The minute this is done, the chaplain takes the hint and resigns...
Sarah Bernhardt was brought up in the salon of her mother, Julie Van Hard, who was maintained by a succession of lovers. When Mother Van Hard decided to be rid of her homely, cranky daughter who was an annual index to her mother's age, the Due de Morny, the lover of the hour, suggested that Sarah go on the stage. Her debut was unsensational, but de Moray's influence kept Sarah in theatrical circulation...
...until the spring of 1942 did Mrs. Stone confess. She explained that she had used the pen name Ethel Vance ("It sounds like a name you were born with and can't get rid of") because: i) her daughter Eleanor (Baroness Perenyi) was then living in Czecho-Slovakia, 2) Husband Captain Ellis Stone was U.S. Naval Attache in Paris, and use of the Stone name might have been undiplomatic. But the new name had already become fashionable. A few weeks after Escape appeared, Mrs. Stone's father hired a negro cook. "Name, please?" asked Father Zaring. "Ethel Vance...
...desert headquarters of the debonair Antipodean, Arthur Coningham (whose nickname "Mary" is corrupted from "Maoris," the name of the fierce New Zealand aborigines). He frequently pops into squadron posts and tells maintenance men to ask him questions. They take the Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black tie he was wearing. Said Tedder: "Oh, I'm a headquarters bloke. You know how stuffy the Chief...