Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week of Nominee Hoover was uneventful, busy-beaverish. It consisted chiefly in trips to and from the broad-terraced Hoover home in Washington to the bare-walled Hoover office at the Department of Commerce. There were no public remarks, no remarkable actions. To avoid the peering public the Hoovers switched churches on Sunday, going to the Quaker meeting house on Irving street instead of the Friends' meeting house at 18th and I streets...
...order to avoid misunderstandings, I wish to declare that I personally, as Dictator, called Parliament together and cooperated with it constitutionally, even though I could have crushed the whole outfit under my thumb like a vile worm. The Deputies behave in Parliament as if they were in a saloon. Only the Ministers must act respectably while the Deputies bawl and act like swine and renegades...
...Dance. Hollywood has the fixed idea that, in every cinema about Russia, the handsome grand duke must inwardly love the down-trodden peasantry and must outwardly love one peasant girl. The upshot is that, inevitably, the grand duke and the girl escape across the border to avoid being butchered by the shaggy Soviets. In The Red Dance they do it in an airplane. And yet, the film is first-class entertainment. Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell are a capable pair, though they do not look very Russian. To Ivan Linow went the sympathy and the praise of the audience...
...whir of airplanes overhead, remain calm, fail to tremble. Not so giraffes, zebras, sable antelopes, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses. Fearing these charges will dash themselves to death in their fright, Sol A. Stephan, manager of the Cincinnati Zoo (see p. 21), last week requested airport authorities to reroute all airplanes to avoid...
...middle of a small parade of American Legionnaires and police. He reached Cedar Island Lodge on the Brule River, 35 miles away, shortly before noon. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the lodge 40 minutes later, having stayed on the train until it reached a place called Winneboujou, in order to avoid a long automobile ride...