Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two years the function of the committee has rapidly expanded. By February, its chairman is better fitted to deal with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
...nitwit accept a film contract which she herself turns down, get acclaimed by the moviegoing public, and return to do a play on Broadway, sponsored by her Philistine boss. But David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty and give Terry Randall (Miss Bennett) an audition. They come around at midnight, drag Terry out of bad, and Mr. Gretzl (the producer), blows cigar smoke in her face. The unhappy young woman breaks down in a fit of coughing and chagrin, but all is saved when...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin announced he would discard his famed tramp makeup, and in his next self-produced picture, in which he will star with Wife Paulette Goddard, he will play a "straight" comic role without costume, will talk on the screen for the first time. He would not tell anyone about the story, said only that it would be ready in "a year-perhaps...
...critics and opponents of Greek and Latin studies base their arguments upon the supposed fruitlessness of learning a language of no practical value. The term "dead" language has become a form of opprobrium and the study of Latin and more especially of Greek has been allowed to lapse into discard. While this shift in attitude is understandable and perhaps, in the light of changing needs, condonable, for those who wish to study Greek life and letters the omission of this popular course is a serious and disheartening blow...
...discard the dangerous language of rivalry. We can put aside the empty phrases of 'diplomatic triumphs' or 'shrewd bargains.' We can forget all thought of domination, of selfish coalitions or of balances of power. Those false gods have no place among American neighbors...