Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laffmovie is one of those Washington Street theatres where small children climb all over you in the afternoon, and sailors and their girl-friends distract you in the evening. There is a soda-dispenser in the lobby and there is the sickening smell of popcorn pervading the establishment at all times. But despite it all, it manages to resurrect the Marx Brothers about every other week, and with plugs in your nose and blinkers on your eyes, they are well worth an hour of your Reading Period time...
...proposed an overall information agency, provided with funds by Congress, advised by the Departments of State, War and Navy but not answerable to them; a single overall director. No special pleader would be allowed to distract the agency or distort its facts. The agency would report directly to the President...
...Worlds. "The world inhabited by ordinary, nice unregenerate people is ... so dull that they have to distract their minds from being aware of it by all sorts of artificial 'amusements.'. . . For those who have deserved the world by making themselves fit to see God within it as well as within their own souls, it wears a very different aspect...
...American policy in World War I, Wells suddenly launched on the unsuspecting James his devastating attack: George Boon, The Mind of the Race. This volume contained a parody of James's style, with this deadly description: "His novel ... is like a church lit, but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an eggshell, a piece of string...
...inclined to agree with Bob Hannegan. But few thought that hard-headed Joe Patterson either wanted to spare his readers below-the-belt copy, or minded too much the family slight in the cartoon on Cousin "Bertie." Best guess was that astute Captain Patterson wanted no side music to distract attention from the blaring, anti-New Deal tune played daily by his accomplished trio of Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor and Columnist John O'Donnell...