Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With what sportswriters regarded as an extraordinary disregard for professional conventions, Pugilist Schmeling announced that he would live up to his end of his bargain. Backed by Madison Square Garden Corp., which publicized the fight, and printed tickets for it, he went into training for a month at Speculator, N. Y., announced that he was confident of winning by a knockout. Only detail in all this preparation that admitted that neither Schmeling nor the Garden actually expected the fight to take place was that on the tickets, of which 43 were sold as curios, Schmeling's name was misspelled...
...Last of all, I believe in the 'disregard' game, which consists of strolling nonchalantly by the procession and completely ignoring every likely petticoat. This is the subtlest of my tricks and can only be practiced by an intelligent person. Occasionally -- nay, perhaps more than that -- even this will not bring response. In that case, there is but one other alternative: hurry over to Radcliffe; they're forever home...
...Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Brandeis allowed it to be announced that they had no present intention of retiring. A letter written by Justice McReynolds fortnight ago to a questioner saying, "You may disregard all rumors of my resignation," was also published. Since Justices Roberts, Stone and Cardozo are not yet 70, are therefore ineligible to retire with pay, the only other likely early retirers are Conservatives Sutherland and Butler...
...forgotten was the private grudge fight between the Reich and New York's peppery little Mayor LaGuardia. With great disregard of time & space, the Berlin press picked Borough President George U. Harvey of Queens to be its candidate this autumn for Mayor of New York. All but annihilating Mr. Harvey's chances before the race began, Berlin newspapers solemnly declared: "If he is elected Mayor, Mr. Harvey has promised to eradicate Communists from New York in two weeks, with rubber hoses." In many ways Adolf Hitler's toughest opponent remained the Catholic Church...
...readers are concerned there are no writers left in Germany. And Italy's literary cupboard is just as bare. But whereas Germany has many an extraterritorial writer to disregard, Italy has only Ignazio Silone. Nevertheless, he is enough to make the Fascist eagle scream with rage...