Word: undo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus eight years after that June day when Dr. Endicott Peabody married Anna Roosevelt to Curtis Dall in the vine-covered Episcopal church at Hyde Park, the President's favorite child set out to undo the marriage. Newshawks quickly noted the shrewd timing of her action: Her divorce, if she gets one, will be granted late next month while her father is away on his trip to Hawaii. Whether, like her brother Elliott, she will remarry shortly thereafter no one yet knew for sure...
That feeling was responsible for Mr. Astor's taking a place on the finance committee for the Roosevelt campaign. His cash contributions to the cause of a man who was suspected of wanting to undo all rich men exceeded $25,000. Soon after the election of his friend he started talking with Raymond Moley about founding a magazine to propound the Roosevelt philosophy, which appealed to the liberal side of his own nature. The same feeling was responsible nearly a year later, when Professor Moley had talked himself out of the Brain Trust, for the founding of Today...
...necessary to describe the disconcerting effects which this questionnaire will have upon those who receive it, for these can only too easily be imagined. Although it is impossible to undo the damage which these lurid broadsheets have already produced, it is strongly to be hoped that authority will make regulations which prevent literature of this type from ever being distributed again. Whitney N. Morgan...
...demanded it in the name of "120,000,000 inarticulate American taxpayers." Said he: "The American citizenry was crucified on Good Friday, 1917 between two thieves, Gold and Greed. . . . May God bless this Congress and may we hope that by Good Friday, 1934 the Senate and the House will undo what was done...
...Evers and Sarah go back to London where she opens an antique shop and he wins a case or two. Then more troubles set in. Sinister Tono Casenove (Nils Asther) appears to blackmail Sarah. Stingy Mrs. Evers (Lorraine MacLean) refuses to give Gordon a divorce. Gossip that threatens to undo Evers' legal practice makes Sarah Casenove think that she must desert him. To top it all, Evers, with a war-bullet in his chest, discovers that he has only six more months to live. The results of surgery in If I Were Free correspond with those of gun play...