Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very difficult to react intelligently toward "Lady Precious Stream," In all honesty it must be confessed that its excessively exotic qualities have the immediate effect of alienating the baffied spectator. He is more than apt to take the thing quite unsympathetically, and dismiss it as infantile makebelive. It is only after he has leisurely considered the explanatory notes on the program that he begins to wonder if he should have enjoyed the play in spite of himself. There is an elucidator in the performance, but he's such a fop that one is inclined not to listen...
With this solid backing the Premier of China celebrated his 50th birthday, and the peak of his career thus far, by hurling a kindling speech at his excited friends and countrymen: "My Government has overcome the twin menaces of Communism and Chinese disunion. We can wholly dismiss any insinuation that some exterior Great Power is needed to help China maintain order within her own borders. Forward, fellow citizens, to revive our old national traits of self-reliance, of self-government, temperance and self-consciousness. Show the world that the Chinese people can do great things...
...Georgia at the bayonet points of his militia. When the Legislature refused to fulfill his campaign promise of cheap automobile licenses, he created them by executive fiat, booted out his Motor Vehicle Commissioner for refusing to sell them. When the head of the potent State Highway Board refused to dismiss five of his engineers, Talmadge sent militia to seize the Board's funds, declared martial law, ousted the Board Chairman and set up a new Board of his own. The Public Service Commission balked at lowering utility rates, another Talmadge campaign promise. The Governor constituted himself judge & jury...
Trouble started last fortnight when Chairman Brundage announced that some of the 334 Olympic athletes had been roistering in the bar of the S. S. Manhattan on which they were en route to Germany. He threatened to dismiss second offenders from the team, remarked darkly: "This trip is no joyride...
...them, owing to life-appointments already held, for example, to justify their retention if they are not of the highest possible calibre. For it is not compatible with the policy of the Administration to keep a man as tutor or instructor for a long period of years, and then dismiss him if he is not to be promoted...