Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon-time and the Freshmen were returning from lunch. Twenty-five out of 28 Freshmen carefully made a detour around that ladder. Then came two proctors. They, too, walked across the grass to avoid the evil omen. "Superstitious people," the reporter remarked, as he detoured around the ladder...
...first wife Marion, daughter of Manhattan's late Mayor William Jay Gaynor, he enlisted as a British Army private, rose to lieutenant colonel, won a Commandership of the Order of the British Empire. Last week his lawyer said he hoped for an out-of-court settlement to avoid a scandalous "confession...
Goodwin's charges were made in the course of an attack on the efforts of the rich to avoid bearing their share of the taxation, especially in regard to municipal economies through reduction in salaries. Shattuck and T. N. Perkins '91, a member of the corporation, have been leading the movement to reduce salaries of municipal employees. Goodwin stated, while refusing to make cuts in the compensation of professors and instructors at Harvard...
...pari-mutuel betting. "Oral" bets (i. e., bets handled by bookmakers), where most racetracks are run at a loss, are estimated at $68,000,000 a year. To legalize pari-mutuel betting in New York would require an amendment to the State constitution, a referendum in 1935. To avoid delay, Assemblyman William Breitenbach was last week urging passage of a bill simply to rescind the penalties for pari-mutuel betting, to let it start up at once...
Died. Marjorie Easton Woodhouse Procter Leidy, 30, second wife of Philadelphia Socialite Carter Randolph Leidy (first wife: Josephine ["Fifi"] Widener), divorced wife of Frederic William Procter, Ivory Soap heir; by drowning when her husband's car, to avoid another, plunged through a guard railing, landed upside down in the shallow Bronx River...