Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when a U. S. preacher says "vice," all of his listeners take him to mean sexual vice, or even more specifically fornication. There is little that a U. S. President or a State Governor or legislator can do about fornication except to avoid this sin himself. Indeed the only thing he can do is to make difficult the practice of the ancient profession of prostitution, which is a commercialized and variously well or badly organized form of fornication-usually regarded as the lowest form...
Before the premiere, there was some feeling that the play would be offensive to Manhattan God-fearers; disputes arose in matter of how much its bitterness should be quieted to avoid the censor. It was not toned down much. A Cross was visible in lecherous episodes and Sharon's trumpets had jazz-mutes in them. Ructions among the producers led to postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor...
...midwinter day in 1900, three men entered the gate in front of Kentucky's capitol at Frankfort and started walking toward the edifice. Halfway through the grounds stands a fountain, the overflow of which had only partly frozen on the path. As the three men turned aside to avoid the sludge, five rifle shots were fired with terrible deliberation and enormous echoes from a lower window of the capitol. One of the men near the fountain collapsed, mortally wounded...
...Nominee. One man begged a new set of false teeth, which reminded the Nominee of a cheerer at the Hoover reception last month in Evanston, Ill., who lost his "plate" at the height of the excitement and had to scramble for it in full view of all. To avoid ostentation and accidents, the vacation motorcade was strung out in pairs of cars or singly. The five-day itinerary was Palo Alto to Bull Flat in the Eel River Valley; to Medford, Ore.; to Hornbrook, Calif., on the Klamath River; then back to San Francisco by rail, and by motor...
...political judges and in part to our too liberal laws. We do not give enough attention to the selection of our judges and prosecuting attorneys. "5) The apathy and indifference of our best citizens toward their duty as citizens. Those best qualified to serve as jurors seek to avoid the service because of its discomforts or because they dislike to leave their business. "6) Unrestricted traffic in firearms. . . . And Retiring-President Strawn went further. He faced what has been going on around him in Chicago ever since Prohibition. He said: "The crime surveys show that crimes of violence, especially...