Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried, secretly, by a military court and, no Jew, was acquitted. In 1898 Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the French President, accused the general staff of having convicted Alfred Dreyfus because of his race. Zola was tried for libel, convicted, and had to leave France hurriedly to avoid imprisonment. Later in 1898, however, it was shown that some of the prosecution's evidence in the Dreyfus trial had consisted of forged documents. One Colonel Henry, chief of the French intelligence department, convicted of having forged one of these documents, committed suicide...
...smashed a jeweler's plate glass window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...
...Ethelreda Lewis. Foreword by John Galsworthy. The Literary Guild of America, New York. This is a volume of memories of a trader's life in central Africa, reeking with atmosphere. The main figure of the story is a real figure; and the subordinate characters are also real. To avoid publicity of offense surnames have been changed...
...acquired the gash when, at the wheel of his own limousine, he swerved to avoid a woman waddling placidly across Whitehall Square...
...last, regardless of whether the last are first. And the Freshman, who little cares for the splendor of a Cambridge summer or the magnificence of the prelude to a Harvard Commencement, must needs linger on until the last day of examinations. Only those happy individuals who have managed to avoid the first year monster, German A, have the privilege of deserting the scene of their labors at an early date. The rest, a group which includes most of the class, are fixtures until the noon which opens the recess...