Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lying) is still at least a semi-honorable profession. It is, because it makes a puissant defense, saying: "I make a hero, and my reader imagines all my hero's virtues to himself. I make a villain and my reader estimates that he himself will avoid the deeds and dooms of villainy." And there's the kernel of the cabbage: the reader dreams himself the man whom all the story turns about. There is the power and the pleasure of the lies that we call Fiction...
...therefore probable that in inclining toward Anglo-Italian proposals for a reparations policy Premier Theunis became caught in the cross-firing of the French. Unwilling to alter his policy and at the same time pressed by Poincare, French Premier, there was nothing for M. Theunis to do to avoid a rupture either with Britain and Italy on the one hand and France on the other, except resign. He therefore seized upon a domestic pretext for his action...
...purpose of the lecture was to prepare medical men for coping with tens of thousands of gas cases, and to popularize methods of self-protection among the civilian population. Five hundred airplanes could capture London by anaesthetizing the entire population-if the attacking fleet were humane enough to avoid poison gas. When the matter-of-fact British seriously consider such possibilities, there is little doubt that the next phase of aerial warfare might spell the destruction of civilization...
...price. If the price of Steel falls to 97, and he orders the stock sold, the bucketing broker, who has secretly sold it already at about 100, makes about $300, while if the. price of Steel falls to 95, the broker pretends to "sell the stock out," to avoid loss himself; actually he has already sold it, and thus simply pockets the customer's $500. Most people who speculate, and particularly amateurs, are always buyers. Hence the bucketshops can flourish only when the stock market is declining. During the long decline in the stock market from November...
...went?and discovered himself viewing a gay little piece entitled Pasteur, a review of that scientist's early life and struggles, all full of the most interesting information on pasteurizing, but with not a pair of gilt slippers or a double-entendre in the cast. So, just to avoid the occurrence of such sad mishaps to those of TIME's clientele who intend to trip over the water this summer, a sketchy review of the Paris theatrical season seems in order. Aham...