Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone. She took her $600 annuity and retreated to the Sacred Heart Villa at Caldwell, N. J. Last week there, walking through a doorway, she stumbled. A leg, necrosed by the radium, broke. She was taken to the Orthopedic Hospital at Orange, N. J. There doctors thought they could avoid amputation. She lies with the broken leg in a heavy plaster cast...
...dailies including big ones (like the New York Herald Tribune) and comparatively obscure ones (like Hearst's Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph). Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, writing his daily syndicated piece, for the Hearst press and King Features Syndicate, had occasion last week to refer to the Coolidge articles. But how to avoid advertising to Hearst readers that they need only pick up a copy of the New York Herald Tribune, Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Washington Post, and find the Coolidge words? Loyal Hearstman, Colyumist Brisbane found a way. Wrote he: "Calvin Coolidge, in the Pittsburgh Sim-Telegraph and other papers...
...every responsibility and stand every criticism, to carry on." Treasurer Dumaine, onetime mill boy, has been called "a past master in New England economy." His economies at Amoskeag were heroic. Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year. Not without opposition has Treasurer Dumaine set Amoskeag on its feet again. Employes have grumbled against...
...late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?anybody?can go Bah! Bah! into a microphone?so! Artists today. . . ." Though Son Felix, 18, and Daughter Lena, 19, possess...
Washington thereafter brimmed with rumor. Bets were even that the chairmanship would be vacant by Aug. 1. Many believed it would still require a public demand from President Hoover to get Mr. Huston out. Speculators selected Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio as his probable successor. To avoid a public explosion on the eve of an important campaign. Republican leaders strove to get the whole unpleasant to-do out of the headlines...