Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long day came as Defense Minister Sir Thomas Inskip, a great churchman who received his appointment in part because of the influence of churchly Mrs. Baldwin, arose to address the House of Commons. Although it contains both male & female M. P.'s the Prime Minister could not avoid bursting into a loud guffaw as Sir Thomas, a tyro at politics but a veteran speaker at Sunday-school picnics, opened an address to the House of Commons with the unheard-of salutation: "Ladies and Gentlemen...
...late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, divorced last June from Nathan Butler Swift, meat-packing scion; and Marcy T. Weeks, 25, onetime tintype concessionaire at the Century of Progress Mexican Village; at Chicago's City Hall. For a witness they chose Bartender Dino Sbragio "because we hoped to avoid publicity .... The marriage itself was a very mechanical affair...
...avoid unnecessary rivalries, the Metropolitan's exhibition contained the work of no living artist, which led to one curious result: in all these pictures of a form of art which holds accuracy and fidelity to nature a chief essential, there was only one picture of a horse really galloping...
United did not announce its discovery at once, being bound as are all airlines by agreement with their insurance companies not to disclose accident causes until the Bureau of Air Commerce makes its official statement. This is to avoid premature damage suits. To avoid similar tragedies, United and other users of DC-3's immediately ordered leather boots to be fitted around all control columns, covering the V-shaped well. Spotting this innovation at Newark, the New York Herald Tribune's crack Aviation Editor Carl B. Allen immediately understood it, broke the story in a front-page scoop...
...film is done entirely in techni-perfect, the previously annoying eye strain is pleasantly absent. So far, photographers seem to have been unable to avoid an exaggeration of color, but many of the mountain shots are exceedingly well done...