Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less I liked its appearance," Mr. Patten testified. Why should Treasurer Upham dispose of bonds belonging to the G. O. P. so privately when there was a quick public market for them any day? Mr. Patten worried about it in bed that night. Next day he rid himself of these queer bonds by giving them as his subscription to the Evanston Hospital...
Turning to politics, he added: "We should rid ourselves of the camouflage of diplomats. Camouflage was conceived in deceit and born in dishonor. It lies both by inference and directly...
Repeatedly defeated at the polls, Disraeli finally turned Tory, and slipped into Parliament through the influence of one of his many women friends. His too brilliant maiden speech was booed. But an Irish opponent, impressed, advised him: "Get rid of your genius for a session. . . . The House will not allow a man to be a wit and an orator, unless they have the credit of finding it out." He gave them the opportunity...
...Talley was going to retire from concert singing for one year in order to study, that she had earned $334,892 from her concerts during the last two years (in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary). Miss Talley resented this "gross breach of confidence," said: "In order to get rid of him [Coppicus], because I was dissatisfied with the work he was doing for me, I told him I was not singing next year. . . . Without doubt I will sing in concerts next season. In fact, I have already signed a contract with my new manager, George Engles, which will take...
...treatment accorded a New York night club by Prohibition officers armed with axes, the Evening World says flatly, "It is incredible that any people, not abject slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning that chemists would...