Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought Fritz Ebert to the front of his party. His voice was more than once heard in the support of militarism. If Germany won the War, the workers would share in the foreseen prosperity; if Germany lost, the workers would be rid of the Kaiser. Several times he sat in council with the All Highest; and when the War ended and the Kaiser fled, Ebert succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor. In such a position, he became the logical choice as President of the Republic...
...college heavyweights will be given their first chance this year to get rid of surplus flesh when Mr. N. W. Fradd throws open his 4 o'clock class to men above 185 pounds in weight...
...glance; but M. Sorbier does not fall for the butterfly act, and very tamely submits to being divorced. One year and six weeks later, as he is about to be married to one of Denise's "best and cattiest friends," his first wife appears to ask him about getting rid of his successor, in order that she may marry a third time. She tells a tragic story of marrying for spite, but her second husband has done nothing which she can use against him. She explains that she has arranged with her lover to manufacture the necessary grounds that night...
...must get rid of it. We must make people want to hear both sides when they are presented. Our natural hostility to foreigners should be combatted. More should be said about Japanese art and less about her navy, more about Russia's attempt to educate millions of her subjects formerly illiterate, and less about her economic mistakes...
...Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Vedder and Captain Harold P. Sawyer-reported that they had met with great success administering chlorine gas as treatment for respiratory diseases, there was general rejoicing. It was hoped that properly regulated whiffing of pungent, biting, acrid, yellowish fumes of nascent chlorine might one day rid man of all his breathing diseases, from plain "sniffles" on up through asthma and whooping cough to consumption. But such hope was dampened, last week, by a report from Dr. Louis I. Harris of the Health Department of New York City. Impressed by the news of Messrs. Vedder and Sawyer...