Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until last year it was customary to hold elections for the position. Beginning last year the change was made to a competitive system of choosing in order to avoid poor addresses...
After the marriage of Queen Elizabeth to the then Duke of York she was raised to the rank of royal duchess by a special order signed by George V. Trying to avoid such an embarrassing situation, London wiseacres first insisted that marriage to the Duke of Windsor would make Mrs. Warfield "automatically" a royal duchess, then veered, suggested that she might be elevated to that position some time after the wedding, when public interest had died down...
...anxious was Commissioner Studebaker to avoid any suggestion of what Russian, German or Italian schoolmen would do with such an opportunity, that he and New Dealer Ickes were ostentatiously vague in their remarks. Commissioner Studebaker warned his small hearers that "democracy must be preserved from every attack." Secretary Ickes declared that they were "entering a world in which we must engage in great enterprises. We must harness Nature, plant forests, and generate power for the use of millions...
...good advice. Founded last winter as a quarterly, the Hobo News was soon converted to a monthly. It is distributed in Manhattan by its editors, elsewhere by itinerants at 5? a copy— 10? "if we can get it." Current edition: 50,000 copies. In an effort to avoid just such an embarrassing situation as Editor Benson found himself in last week, on the back cover appears the legend: NOTICE TO POLICE—This is a Bona Fide Newspaper...
...Philadelphia last week, Temple University's Track Coach Ben Ogden proposed an innovation to enable pole-vaulters to avoid "jarring their nervous system when they land on the ground": a net, like those used by circus trapezists, stretched seven feet above the ground, to catch them on the way down...