Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embassies and put up a huge defense fund to show that they thought Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti had been convicted unjustly. The defense says that in 1920 the U. S. was on a militant radical hunt, and so used a murder conviction as a speedy method of getting rid of two Italian radicals who had harmed...
...international episode of Sacco and Vanzetti (TIME, Aug. 9) began its run. In Paris and Mexico City, in Italy and South America, thousands clamored that a Red-fearing U. S. had blindfolded the goddess of Justice to get rid of two Italians. Bombs were tossed at U. S. embassies with a casual malice. One autumn day in Paris in 1921, Ambassador Herrick's valet opened the morning's mail. "Bang!" went a nefarious machine. He was wounded. Many a man- Remain Rolland, Fritz Kreisler, Professor Einstein, Count von Bernstorff, H. L. Mencken, Eugene V. Debs-demanded...
...Radium Institute of New York was receiving newsgatherers at his laboratory. "Here," he said "look at this blue dish. This was a yellowish glass. We used it in our radium work. Gradually the color changed from yellow to this beautiful blue." He showed them other glass that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first water. How long these stones would stay purified, Dr. Field could not say. But they had not reverted in four years time...
Plenty of newspapers so called are glad to get rid of their subject even though their readers don't understand a word they print...
...Illinois), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, echoed cheers for President Coolidge's economy and "the faithful manner in which he has performed his duties under the budget law." Mr. Madden predicted a surplus in the Treasury for 1927, and showed how the Government was going to get rid of its four and a half bilbion...