Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, lives for music alone, and not for anything else. Particularly not for such an unessential matter as acting. It is a real Italian company. Italian singers despise acting; they "act" only when they feel their voices going back on them, and do it only to distract attention from their vocal. weaknesses...
...arrival of the seasonal Summer dullness in trade, superimposed upon a period of trade and manufacturing depression, has resulted in dull and inert commercial conditions. The political Conventions have meanwhile served to distract attention from business affairs, and with the prospect of unsettled conditions in politics for the next four months, there is a tendency toward watchful waiting all along the line from producer to consumer. Wall Street, however, after several months of an uninteresting experience with meaninglessly see-sawing prices, is now getting the old-fashioned thrill that only a sudden decline in interest rates can give. Bonds...
...swift decline in stock prices has tended to distract public attention from the more gradual but continuous fall in the prices of commodities...
After reading "The Big Year" we have decided not to send our son to New Haven. He would probably do much better at the University of Valpar also--and not find so much rah-rah to distract his mind. The Brooklyn Eagle...