Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victor Ehler, who has been pulling the rope of the Chapel bell every morning since the building was built eight years ago, estimates that he has made the bell ring more than 300,000 times. He always wears gloves, he says, to avoid getting hemp splinters in his hands. A bellrope, extending from the Chapel tower to Ehler's room in the basement, lasts about five years on the average, and the present one, already black from glove leather, has been in use a year. In the event of a memorial service, Ehler has to climb up in the tower...
Phil La Follette wished to avoid attending Julius Heil's inaugural, but the latter insisted on his presence so, before sailing to inspect Europe, he went through with it. He coached the stubby, awkward industrialist in his platform maneuvers and responses. He chatted with him animatedly and tried to look interested when Julius Heil orated: "We want peace and harmony, we want prosperity...
Every time the Rose Bowl game came around, sportswriters reminded their readers of his monumental blunder. Even last fall, when Oakland féted Transcontinental Flyer Douglas Corrigan, the local entertainment committee dragged Roy Riegels from the asparagus farm where he had retired to avoid people, to shake hands publicly with the new Wrong-Way Champion...
Freshmen will find it harder than ever before to avoid taking English A, according to an announcement from University Hall which yesterday revealed that, starting with the class of 1943, the number of exemptions will be materially reduced, and that the traditional Yardling composition course will be counted toward a degree...
...become one of the great Bohemian clubs of the world. Besides artists, all sorts and conditions of men have gained admittance- ambassadors and auctioneers, ornithologists and explorers, magicians and Presidents of the U. S. Actors have always formed a powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John Philip Sousa, Richard Mansfield...