Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon the style dictator, told him that almost their whole stock of women's evening gowns would be rendered worthless by his decree. These gowns, the merchants hotly protested, were "decent." Did Dr. Bracht want to see them on the backs of mannequins? ( Dr. Bracht saw that he must avoid making himself ridiculous. Declining the mannequin parade, he announced a "liberal'' interpretation of his decree. Gowns could be cut as low as "the middle of the waist." But where is that? In practice everyone knows. But Berlin cartoonists saw their chance, filled Berlin dailies with mock drawings of learned statisticians...
...Everyone may go by a softer name but the cynic. The sinister, cheerful lawbreaker who warms your entrails is an "importer." He who steals your trashy purse because you pay safely by check, is no usurer, but a respectable banker. So along the line, gentlemen all, does the world avoid rasping unpleasantness, except the cynic, whose avocation of cavity is unmitigated. Now there are facts, and there are reasons, and let them be heard...
...city after city, we are teaching people to evade their responsibilities by tacitly assuming that they will avoid paying rout. There are very few cities in which to any considerable extent money for rout is given to those in need. There are unemployed families who for three years have occupied one house or a succession of houses without paying a dollar of rent...
...masterly compromise with Capitalism, both within Russia and without. By restoring the use of money, permitting Russians to buy & sell for what the traffic would bear and letting concessions to foreign capitalists, Nikolai Lenin gave Russia a new lease on economic life. But not in time to avoid the Great Famine. Maxim Gorki appealed for food to Herbert Hoover, then chairman of the American Relief Administration (A. R. A.). It is history that during the desperate famine winter of 1921-22 the A. R. A. fed some 10,000,000 Russians, other foreign relief agencies...
...butler (Boris Karloff) whose hair is unbrushed but whose face looks as though he had combed it with a threshing machine. In the old dark house, the motorists (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas) are insulted by their hosts, a family of Femms who are living in seclusion to avoid being hanged for murder. While the Femms and their guests are dining on cold roast beef, boiled potatoes and stale bread, more motorists arrive, a Welsh millionaire (Charles Laughton) and his tricky mistress (Lillian Bond). The type of hospitality to be expected in an establishment of this sort reaches...