Word: abandoning
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Since the authorities are of insufficient intelligence to devise a scheme whereby the breakfast hour may be advanced without abolishing student-waiters. I guess we will have to abandon this constructive suggestion...
...first families of Tangipahoa Parish, a woman who had never put her hand into political mud, looked on with dismay at the whole scandalous proceeding. Then she took a hand herself, offered to resign as Congresswoman to stand for nomination in regular primaries if her opponents would abandon their plan to hold a "citizens' election." To the Kingfish, sitting in his New Orleans hotel room surrounded by bodyguards, the news of her offer was a severe jolt...
...circulation and advertising; its prestige has declined seriously, and it is regarded by up-to-date sophisticates as rather passe. It is certain that the acute Mr. Mencken was fully aware of all this and it is highly probable that it played a considerable part in inducing him to abandon a magazine and an attitude that were both becoming outmoded...
...these influences were represented at Mr. Roosevelt's conference. Even if he felt more inclined than before to caution, the President did not decide to abandon Professor Warren's ideas-not at least till they had had some further trial. Monday morning the R. F. C.'s gold price again was given another boost, was set at $33.45 (equivalent to a 61.79 cent dollar) and the dollar once more started down in foreign exchange...
...moves out. When the blonde finds the brunette's clothes in his room next morning, she breaks off with him. While he is dancing that night with the brunette at the street ball, the blonde's mother dies. He falls into the company of thieves, abandon's taxi-driving. But on his first job he finds that the cashier of the wine shop to be robbed is the blonde and he breaks up the burglary. For shielding him she loses her job and the two lose one another again. She meets the old drunk again...