Word: rid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Poughkeepsie. N. Y. Last week The Chronicle rasped: "It occurs to us that a person who is so little interested in what he has to say to God that he must be artificially prompted would best withdraw from the Divine Presence. It also suggests itself that one might get rid of the rosary and its knotted string imitation by tying strings on his fingers to the number of limes he wished to pray. . . . The only objection would be that it might seem strange to see people coming to Church with both hands all tied up. Then of course there...
...that point Kelly got rid of the expensive car, bought a smaller machine. He dyed his black hair yellow, gave his wife the red wig. The trail led to Des Moines and Omaha, with the Federal agents only a few hours behind. The agents guessed that the fugitives were heading for California. They set a trap at Reno. But Kelly doubled back. He continued to change cars, being careful never to use a stolen one. At the end of August Kelly was traced to Memphis, then to Chicago where the agents said "we came so close to getting him that...
Governor Lehman of New York took to his bed with a sharp pain in his side late last week-sub-acute appendicitis-but not before he had helped rid his State of an acute pain in the pocket book. All week in his Manhattan apartment he had continued conferences between the city's bankers, officials of the New York Stock Exchange and prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. The last, counseled by orchid-wearing old Samuel Untermyer, persisted stubbornly in his proposal to pile a city tax on top of the Federal and State taxes on stock transfers...
...passion for fighting brilliantly in the name of a lost cause. The lost causes of Theodore Roosevelt have never seemed quite like the lost causes of anyone else. In the very early Albany era, his politics was mere moral indignation, but he vented it so resoundingly as to rid New York of a few petty pillagers of the till and to sweep himself into the governor's chair. During the war days, when he was one moment writing articles and the next going off to sulk because Mr. Root would not let him lead a picturesque cavalry squadron to suicide...
...pounders down to $6 on 100-pounders, and $4 a head flat on farrowing sows). Farmers expecting better hog prices next year cannily held back their farrowing sows, sold the Government only 200,000 up to last week. But so eager were farmers to be rid of young hogs that shipments poured in. With over 3,000,000 already received the Administration raised its quota last week to 5,992,000 piglets...