Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome deficit. The Russian Opera Company, which arrives in New York after a long road tour, has been no financial godsend to its manager, S. Hurok. Any study of operatic finances makes it the more extraordinary that the Metropolitan company, whose policy is not to make profits but to avoid deficits, stands today the world's first operatic institution and earns a considerable surplus. Mr. Gatti has indeed achieved what many in the old days would have deemed a miracle, when he thus transformed the Metropolitan's huge deficit, which was traditional in previous years, from plus...
...also being prepared for between London and Paris. The trail from the London Terminus at Croydon to Lympe, where the airplanes set out across the narrow English Channel, is already a fair blaze of light. It has been named "the Regent Street of the Continental Airways." The Londoner will avoid his early closing hours by flying to Paris, doing a heavy round of Montmartre and still return early enough to rest up before his office in the morning...
...often said that "they do things better in France." Certain it is that the Frenchman argues on all possible occasions on subjects which Americans avoid. The result is that while the Frenchman keeps his ideas sharp and clear, the Anglo-Saxon is apt to leave his thoughts in the dim background. There will be ample opportunity at Silver Bay to try the French method, not only with older men but also with delegates from a large number of other colleges. Anyone who is so firmly fixed in his faith that he has nothing to receive, or so strongly silent that...
...brown monkey which is a pest to fruit cultivators, but is protected none-the-less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers who snare the animals at night in nets and then loose them just over their neighbor's fence. As the neighbor also has his corps this policy insures plenty of food for the monkeys, plenty of work...
...Avoid this imbecility...