Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tearing up the fire insurance policies and booting the weary fire department out of the country as soon as the fire is put out" says Mr. Hanford McNider '11, is exactly comparable to getting rid of armaments and abolishing military training as soon as the war is over. This analogy appears logical. Since fire is an unavoidable emergency just as war is, protection is as necessary an antidote to extinguish the one as the other. Since the fire department is hostile to fires, the more firemen in any given district, the more infrequent the fires; with no firemen...
...minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character and susceptible to good looks, wants to marry him. In order to rid himself of girl number one, who is about to have a child he plans what will seem to be an accidental drowning in a lonely lake. He loses his nerve at the last moment but the boat is overturned by accident and he lets the girl drown. Arrested, he goes...
...came out of my long retreat ... to help the Canadian people get rid of a certain class and of attempts at blackmailing public men, Governments and Parliaments in order to secure certain sordid ends . . . that sordid dominion of this group in Quebec which has been exercised by Lord Atholstan and the Montreal Star for 25 years...
...Rhinelander, having left his wife, believing that she had deceived him about her colored parentage at the time of their marriage, had only three courses open to him to be rid...
...about direct restriction of farm production?to get rid of the problem of the surplus by getting rid of the surplus. There are practical difficulties in the way of such procedure, although they might perhaps be overcome. It might lead to foreign ill-will and would look a bit inconsistent in the face of U. S. protest against British restriction on rubber production (TIME, Jan. 4). This third avenue is apparently not being forcibly suggested by any group, although the Department of Agriculture hinted at it in a report on 1924 crops last week...