Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
...ignorance of the political side of their job. Said a colonel: "Conditions are quite disturbed in northern Greece. You can even get shot at-but perhaps you have heard of it." Said another officer, who is helping train the Greek Army: "I almost never read the news. It might distract me from my work...
Died. Frederic William Goudy, 82, dean of U.S. type designers; of coronary thrombosis; in Marlboro, N.Y. A penniless bookkeeper until he was 33, Goudy turned to his rare craft with the conviction that printed words should aid, not distract, the reader. Of his hundred-odd simple, honest designs for printing type, six are now classic, one (Kennerly) is considered by some experts the most beautiful since the work of 18th Century Master William Caslon...
...Council hopes that the short interval of time between the special elections held two months ago and these, the first regular elections, won't distract from interest in the Houses," Axt said...
Visiting Now Havenites, members of soccer and college football teams, attempted to distract the throngs with the strains of the immortal "Boola Boola," but the insurgents were quickly out-shouted by deep-threated Crimson rooters...