Word: destroyer
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...rates in the bill as it passed the House a year ago were higher than in the bill recently signed . , . yet business at that time did not take alarm. ... I have canvassed the situation with the Secretary of Commerce, and the notion that this law is going to destroy our foreign trade . . . certainly is without foundation. ... In so far as imports are concerned, foreign nations that do business with us would do well to remember that the all-important factor is the maintenance of the high purchasing power and standard of living of the American people...
...have not changed my opinion that it should have been worked out in such a way that men having substantial incomes should not draw pensions from the Government . . . [also] I do not believe it is right to change our national policy to pay disability allowances to men who may destroy their health by vicious habits...
...your complainant and her friends; he no longer cared for and fed the pet donkey that was their comfort during their married life but brought into their happy home an elephant to which he devoted his entire time and attention. . . . He threatened to break your complainant up and destroy her forever. . . . A. BERKOWITZ Solicitor for the complainant." Though the Chancery Court clerk accepted the petition. Judge William Walker threw it out, saying: "While witty, it is beneath the dignity of this court...
...Legend locates him in India, China, Florida, Africa, Canada, Germany, The Bronx. He was usually supposed to have the body of a horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would act as an antidote for'poison, would cure convulsions, the holy disease (epilepsy...
...schoolboy knows that the Indian has not yet quite vanished from the forests of the continent that was his. But no schoolbook, museum or government bureau will ever preserve the vestigial red man as this picture does. Few professionals could have made such a picture, nor could they quite destroy it with commercial cutting and retouching after the effort and money lavished upon it by courageous amateurs. It is the work of William Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler, a young Harvard combination. From boyhood Burden has known the forests of Canada. The cast was recruited from the Ojibwas...