Word: discards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even in the middle of a depression. It was at that time that I began waving fans about to emulate the wings of a bird. At first I wore a dress, but I soon discovered that it encumbered my movements to such an extent that I had to discard it. Of course I could have danced in my lingerie, but I think that it is indecent to appear on the stage in one's underclothes. Embarassed? No, other people don't embarass me. At any rate, Rand can never appear in costume again...
...life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light of a single book or a single lecture he is unable to account rationally for beliefs held since childhood should not lead him to discard those beliefs overnight. All too many students have lost their bearings in academic wildernesses because they have heard men with giant intellects treat scornfully ideas which had been believed implicitly...
...nude, selects another name at random which happens to be hers. From that point on, experienced cinemaddicts are not likely to derive much suspense from watching the artist's serious romance with Miss Major endangered temporarily by the jealousy of a mistress (Mady Christians) he is trying to discard and the rage of an elderly doctor (Frank Morgan) who discovers that his young wife (Virginia Bruce) was really the subject of the nude portrait. As a substitute, they may derive amusement from scenes like the one in which "Poldi" Major breaks in on the duchess' petulant gardener...
...policy of sports for exercise and pleasure seems to be fading into the discard. The H.A.A., by withdrawing its support from minor sports, lays more emphasis on football. If a man wants both exercise and training at the same time, he will have to go out for a major sport, whether he likes that sport or not. The boast of the Hygiene Department of "Athletics for all" is rapidly becoming revised to "Athletics for all football players" or "Athletics for all who can afford them." John Dorman...
Last week the American Legion lobby, most potent in Washington, once more demonstrated its power. Of 25 Bonus bills on which it has been conducting hearings, the House Ways & Means Committee voted null to report out the Legion-sponsored Vinson Bill. Into committee discard went the famed Patman Bill, long House Bill No. 1, backed by inflationists and Veterans of Foreign Wars, twice passed by the House and rejected by the Senate. Down from his place as the House's No. 1 Bonuseer stepped Texas' Wright Patman, to be replaced by Kentucky's Frederick Moore Vinson...