Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inconceivable!" Belief that the published text of the "gentlemen's agreement" is a red herring to distract attention from some understanding still more devious was voiced cautiously in London by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill and bluntly in Washington by Senator Kenneth McKellar (Dem.) who said...
...since on the long road that led him from the Professorship of Rhetoric at Lyon (1896-1904) to the Mayoralty (1906), which he has held, with one break, ever since, and twice into the office of Premier (1924-25 and 1926, the last time for only two days). To distract themselves other statesmen read. Edouard Herriot (like Winston Churchill) writes. Because he chanced to attend a Beethoven festival, M. Herriot is the author of a life of Beethoven. Because he loves the forests of Normandy he has made a rambling book out of his rambles there. Stimulated by a curiosity...
...there are notable exceptions in this exhibition. Istvan Pekary, for instance, in his small canvas called "The Funeral," has with his purposely naive and provincial style given us a picture fairly bristling with emotion. For some reason, his many genre figures scattered all over the picture do not distract us from the central idea...
...Princeton trustees appointed a committee headed by President Wilson to investigate and elaborate the plan. But opposition arose: from Dean West of the Graduate School, who feared that development of the Wilson plan would distract interest from his own school; from ex-President Grover Cleveland, on the Graduate School trustee committee and friend of Dean West; from Dr. Henry van Dyke; from Professor John Grier Hibben, upon whose support Wilson had counted. Outside of Princeton, however, the plan was received with enthusiasm. Press, public, many an alumnus hailed it. Said Harvard's Charles Francis Adams (now U. S. Secretary...
...Trenton, N. J. the Board of Education asked a court injunction against the building of Passaic County Airport across the road from a new township school. Board members feared that low flying aircraft would endanger and distract school occupants...