Word: vacantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, after paying $32,500 of alimony in 13 years, Garfield J. Schieferstein, onetime rich realtor who lived "like a hermit in one of my vacant flats, with a bed and a chair as my only furniture," committed suicide. He left a note: "I leave this world because I have been ruined by my wife and the laws and courts that make the racket of alimony possible. ... I had the grief and my wife had the gravy. Goodby, world, you are too much...
...most recent criticism of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences appears in the March issue of the Harvard Graduates Magazine. Bewailing the decline of that once eminent institution, the writer points out that the school is now forced to fill its vacant chairs almost exclusively with men from other Universities, and that in the past few years there has been an alarming increase in the number of refusals of calls to the school...
...awarding of these prizes is usually in charge of the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Since this position has been left vacant by the resignation of Professor Charles Townsend Copeland '82, the management of the competition has been placed in the hands of F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, who is being assisted by W. S. Howell, instructor in Public Speaking...
...Decided that there had been no election for U. S. Senator in Alabama in 1930, declared vacant the seat of John H. Bankhead...
...please the court," Lawyer Jeffries addressed the vacant bench, "I move dismissal on grounds of illegal search and seizure...