Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile, a Ford sedan, suddenly swung from the curb, where it was parked at 9:00 o'clock yesterday morning, forcing three cars to swerve aside to avoid a crash. The runway vehicle then proceeded to roll down Quincy Street and smashed into a four-foot post on the opposite side of the street...
...huge bombard of sack"-guzzler, lecher, liar, braggart, coward, thief-he is like some centrifugal force overcoming gravitation. Far from being a villain, he is the most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting to be acquitted, only certain of being pardoned. "He carves out his jokes," said Hazlitt...
...courage have little to do with the price of eggs. Hollywood not only has no courage but is not concerned with having any. Despite the fact that it will not be shown in Italy anyway, Idiot's Delight goes so far out of its way to avoid insulting Italians as to have its military characters talk Esperanto. The picture indicts nothing except war in general, and does even this halfheartedly. This caution, however, is not due primarily to Hollywood's reluctance to offend, but merely to its intense eagerness to make profits. Author Sherwood, as familiar with...
...marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused to do any "commercial" work. A terrific and efficient worker, to avoid interruptions Picasso soon took to painting all night, a habit which may have had something to do with the blueness of the Blue Period...
...Natural History of Population* Author Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist of Johns Hopkins University, has been much in the news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported in the press, a view which Dr. Pearl himself failed to share (TIME, Jan. 23). Longevity and population are only...