Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demolishing monotony is a worthy goal, and a far better one than a naive attempt to infect the College with Rah Rah. In fact, the Key seems to be organizing the whole project fairly intelligently--there is a good chance that the project will avoid the sort of snares and pitfalls that finessed the all-college dance plans last year and ended the class of '51 dance...
...time your arrival at the Exeter just right, you can avoid all of "Woman Hater," which manages to pack more cliches per foot of film that any recent production. How J. Arthur Rank allowed his name to be affixed to this one is a mystery...
Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...
...city's nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...
...Million" is an early attempt at the formula that later proved successful in "Tales of Manhattan." A dying millionaire decides to give away his money--in million-dollar gobs--to people selected at random from the city directory. He does this to avoid leaving it to his relatives, who are gathered in the hallway like homing turkey buzzards. The point of it all is that Good People can be happy with money, but that Bad People cannot, and so on, through half a dozen incidents...