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...King and Queen often leave a performance before it is over in order to avoid being caught in an exit crowd or to avoid causing inconvenience to the audience by requiring them to wait until they have departed...
...uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid a crash with a car full of cinematographers...
...State Medical Association created a committee to devise dignified and effective means for advertising for the great body of allopathic physicians. This committee passed resolutions urging county Medical Associations 1) to publish advertisements in local papers of educational nature advising people how to get proper treatment for diseases and avoid false cures, and 2) to publish from time to time in these papers lists of the members of the county Medical Associations, so that the public might know what doctors in their opinion were properly qualified to give adequate treatment to patients...
...Providence, a law was enforced by the state police: motorists traveling on the main state thoroughfares must maintain a speed of 35 miles an hour or get off the road to avoid blocking traffic...
...Questions were asked in the House of Commons where Premier Baldwin, admitting the seriousness of the outlook, said it was the policy of his Government not to interfere in the dispute until absolutely necessary. It was evident, however, that both the miners and their employers were anxious to avoid a strike and the possibility of Government intervention...