Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment a rippling movement separated the corporation into those who jumped to the left, and those who jumped to the right, to avoid disaster. Only one man took a determined stand. With his head bent slightly forward in characteristic pose, he applied a deft hand to the collar that shot past like a flash of light. The machine went on; but the rider, out of breath and speechless at the austerity of the new circumstances was safely tethered. The corporation replaced its hats and moved on, definitely jovial now, and disappeared into University Hall. The wind struck at the Vagabond...
Naturally a mean must be reached to avoid impossible conditions for the speaker. Even if he were placed at a disadvantage, however, his difficulties with a slight resonance would hardly be comparable to those of a choir without it. All that is needed to improve the musical acoustics is to remove the padding from under the carpets, and to replaster, or paint over smoothly, the rough finish ceiling. Certainly the expense of these changes, besides being negligible, would be well worth the consequent improvement in the effectiveness of both the music and the service itself...
Over the week-end Oberst Goring, acting for Leader Hitler who wished to avoid possible rebuffs, contacted secretly the leaders of all parties which might be expected to come into coalition except Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "Hearst of Germany...
...Farewell Miss Julie Logan" Barrie manages to avoid much of the sentimentality so objectionable in some of his early works. He tells the tale with an appropriate simplicity, but on the other hand, he neither adds to its lucidity or excellence by his over-concious use of dialect. Because of the characters and a convincing reality, it is far from being an ordinary ghost story. And it will probably insure the author a popularity beyond the nursery in a modern, perhaps over-sophisticated world...
...bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers, no grandfather, for John Davison Rockefeller, 93, departed for Ormond Beach, Fla. two days before the wedding to avoid public exposure. After an organ prelude including Bach's Prelude in E flat minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" and "Blessed Jesu. We Are Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick...