Word: shun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flattery or delusive promises; the fifth, to express sympathy, etc. The Graphic limerick rhymed with "stew" and "chew"; the Home News offered "barbecue" which, they said, is "an animal, roasted whole"; "phew,"?"an expression of disgust or surprise," they made clear; "eschew," which means to "avoid" or "shun," the editors of the Home News told the public so that there would be no mistake about it. Certain readers of the Home News, however?those whom Robert Browning could have complimentedtore up their copies of the sheet and stamped upon the fragments. "Our intelligence has been insulted!" they cried?"that...
...shun you in brief, I reject...
...faults lie in that it is applied to the poor and not to the rich and that it has no weight of public opinion behind it. If a burglar should walk through the Yard, you fellows would look on him with dislike and horror. But do you shun a bootlegger, when he breaks the law as much as the burglar does...
...Outsider. A girl cripple (twisted hips), beautiful, intelligent, a talented musical composer, longs to stand up to conduct her own symphonies, longs to stand up and have a man play upon her passions. Men flirt with her, but shun her as a matrimonial hazard. Repression has given her a case of aggravated amorousness. A Russian surgical instrument maker, half genius, half charlatan, who received his early training in the Chicago stockyards, guarantees to cure her with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart...
...Italian Council of the Labor Federation decided to shun politics at the forthcoming elections. Its members are thus left free to choose between the Fascisti and anti-Fascisti candidates. The Council, however, took the opportunity to express its principles on labor and civil liberties...