Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the epitaph awaiting Lee O'Neil Browne when, last week, stooping to avoid a low branch, he made a misstep on the narrow stone path at the edge of his bluff and plunged 50 feet into the Fox River, whose muddy waters whirled along half a mile (to their junction with the Illinois River) before"yielding the body...
...cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured the double deliverance of Alsace and Lorraine...
...wherein Warily Gang Leader was chained, before which a sentry should have been posted. Presumably, then, he put Warily Gang Leader warily under his coat, deposited him in a sack, then put the sack in a truck leaving a back entrance of Madison Square Garden, to avoid porters instructed to let no dog leave the building without properly identified escort. When Reginald M. Lewis, owner of Warily Gang Leader and Talavera Margaret, returned, the kennel was bare. His loss was approximately...
...drawn from the results of Fire Prevention Week of October, 1926, when 400 fire chiefs of leading cities reported losses of only $400,848 as compared with a weekly normal for their territory of more than $1,200,000. The underwriters said that people can be careful to avoid fires if stirred to do it, but they are simply not careful when left to their own routine of negligence...
Managua, Nicaragua. The good will landing of the air ambassador had been somewhat marred in the world's eyes by the death of certain U. S. Marines who were bent on armed enforcement of U. S. decrees in Nicaragua. Col. Lindbergh detoured 30 miles to avoid the battleground. He dropped from the sky into a thunderstorm of welcome. A huge banner billowed out the words "Envoy of Peace and Good Will from Coolidge." An excited restauranteur sprinkled champagne in the street over which he was to pass. National Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held...