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...Everyone hates everyone else; no one, except the everpresent proletarian butler, ever says anything pleasant to anyone else; and more highballs are downed per foot of film than in any movie turned out since Schenley's stopped producing propaganda flickers. Miss Dunne's ultimately successful attempt to get rid of her "unfinished business," which in this case is her still unrequited love for her city-slicker boyfriend, constitutes what might be called the remainder of the plot...
Regardless of whose feelings get hurt, and how deeply, the U.S. Army has to rid itself of officers who are incompetent, too old, or badly trained. It intends to continue transferring improperly assigned officers from combat commands to administrative work where they can do better. The process will continue for several months, reach far down into the second lieutenants before it is ended...
...Wilson one get rid of this wretch," Hooey shouted, annoyed. "Of course we'll take Dartmouth into Camp, Antaya knot in their scalp lochs. I Kast my vote for Jawn...
...these men would come under the category of the "few dishonest individuals" which the A.F. of L. resolutions committee reported were bound to turn up "in any organization of 5,000,000 or more." They are past history, and the Executive Council is going to get rid of just this sort of thing...
...fruits of its collaboration with Germany, announced that Adolf Hitler had released one-fourth of his French war prisoners-500,000 men. It was plain that in choosing those to be freed Hitler had intended: 1) to help France grow strong again for New Order purposes; 2) to rid his prison camps of disabled prisoners who were a nuisance. Those released included medical-corps members, fathers who had four children when mobilized, some farm workers, veterans of World War I, members of families of those who had volunteered to fight Russia, the wounded, those (mostly tuberculous) who had become seriously...