They severed their partnership in 1902, three years before his death.
Mencken will be left as sole editor; thus is severed a partnership that began on Smart Set in 1914.
Rick Perry tried to build a humongous highway through Texas in a public-private partnership that would have severed the state with a toll road as wide as four football fields.
In January, citing higher-than-anticipated development costs, Mirage decided to use the entire 155-acre parcel for one vast casino resort and severed its partnership with Boyd Gaming and Circus Circus, which had planned to build the third casino.
In 2010, the band severed its partnership with Independiente and later negotiated a contract agreement with Cooking Vinyl.
The show was so desperately troubled that it permanently severed the partnership of Bock & Harnick, which over thirteen years had brought forth the ambitious Fiorello!, the classic Fiddler, and the lustrous She Loves Me.
While those remarks didn't sit well with some -- Jim Henson's Muppets severed their partnership with the chain, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced plans to block Chick-fil-A's expansion in to the city, and a number of other public figures have urged a boycott -- Santorum's support for Cathy and his anti-gay beliefs isn't surprising.
It has spawned lawsuits, severed longstanding partnerships and pitted brother against brother, cousin against cousin.
But the political partnership has not been entirely severed.
And Mr. Ovitz is estranged from Ron Meyer, one of his former partners at Creative Artists, who is now president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios -- a unit of Vivendi Universal, which has just severed its film partnership with Mr. Ovitz.
As for Hughes's collection "Birthday Letters," published shortly before his death in 1998, it was a kind of reunion of the two poets, recreating their severed but enduring partnership through the aegis of words and myth.
