Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor of New York on charges of graft and incompetence. Apparently the greater part of the people of New York are so accustomed to the Tammany Tiger that they prefer the smell of the beast to clean air. On the basis of such reports it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the average American has less self-respect, as a citizen, than men who live under other democratic governments. With these examples of popular complacence before him, Governor Roosevelt might well be tempted to dismiss summarily the petition to remove Walker from office, which he is expected to receive...
...many bottles of sekt (champagne), former officers of the Imperial German Army last week celebrated the 50th birthday of long-necked Friedrich Wilhelm, onetime Crown Prince of Germany. Granting an interview to the foreign Press for the first time since his return from exile (1923), he said: "... I cannot avoid hitting straight from the shoulder. . . . Have you proud and free Americans any inkling of what it means to make a proud people submit to special laws and regulations...
...Hunger March" staged by "radicals." The American public, much to its own disgrace, refuses to have any sympathy with a movement tagged "radical," regardless of the justice involved. Practical action to aid political prisoners should be planned with a full recognition of this condition, and such action should avoid antagonizing the public until every alternative has been tried. Miss Berkman's plight will henceforth become identified, in the minds of the majority, with impetuous and hot-headed demonstrations, and will suffer accordingly...
...name from Selby 20 years before in Canada. By chance they also learn that a man named Selby, 20 years before in Canada, ingeniously did away with his philandering mate and her lover in a series of accidents arising out of circumstances which he had publicly warned them to avoid. He therefore went scot free. When a series of near-accidents begin to happen to them, Mrs. Clive and O'Ryan are certain that her husband has planned their murders The arbor collapses, a pit is mysteriously dug in the garden, the stair rail falls. Actor Conroy...
...known, the crew will avoid races of any sort, and will confine its activity to trips up and down the Charles at the leisure of the oarsmen. "However, if an informal race should occur the odds might well be in favor of the faculty crew, if one can judge by the form displayed in many of the student shells seen on the river daily," Mr. Harris said...