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...Churches for Old (1922) he urged: get rid of theology, develop in its place a conception of religion as a social fellowship. He is against war and whiskey...
...enforce prohibition at Senator Bruce's instigation; sent it to conference; adopted the conference report, taking out the joker and leaving $13,500,000 for prohibition, by vote of 38 to 35; sent the bill to the President. Said Senator Bruce: "The way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce...
...seems there were a variety of names-Daphne, Circe, Calypso, Nausicaa-but all had the one purpose of beloving Odysseus, bearing his children, and getting rid of him when he grew boring. Daphne, lotus-eater, was perhaps the most charming-that is, until she referred casually to the custom of her country that would require Odysseus' death as soon as she was with child by him. Before he could complete, however, his mission as chosen father, he escaped to the next island and succumbed to the charms of Circe (he later described her to Penelope as "a witch, rather...
...Millions of Germans await from you, Herr Reichspraesident, immediate intervention to rid the nation of these low criminal pests. Seizure of the criminals can be accomplished by speedy action for there ought to be enough German-blooded Germans in the Department of Justice to make that possible...
...contract bombers and percentage kidnappers used all their violence to nominate a ticket which would be good for four years more of all this, dated from next November, and the combinations of politics, crime and vice were defeated in a desperate effort of the people of Chicago to get rid of them...