Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family, which is fabled to have crossed Bering Strait on ice to avoid the discomforts of shipboard, could have accomplished its purpose much more easily by means of Pullman sleepers under...
...hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...
Last minute developments making it impossible to arrange for moving pictures have made it necessary to cancel the Sophomore Smoker which was scheduled for this evening. The Committee had hoped to be able to avoid strict compliance with the state law prohibiting the projection of motion pictures in private buildings more than once during any one week, by means of a special permit. This permit they failed to get and the Smoker has therefore been postponed until Tuesday, January...
...masse, as they were heard, they seemed a little too much. The ever beautiful D minor symphony began the program. It is a work of marvellous vitality, rich in harmonic structure and solidly if not exotically orchestrated. It is a piece in which great pains must be taken to avoid sentimentality; these Mr. Monteux took, at the expense, perhaps, of some of the beauty of the second movement. Four years ago, when the symphony was last heard in Boston, the tempo of this second movement was slower, therein evidently different from the composer's conception (the movement is marked allegretto...
...this is too bad--especially since Shakespeare probably said to himself: "By the jolly Eliza, here is a play, at last, but where can I get an actor? Ah--I must write some directions." And so he told how to trip it on the tongue, and how to avoid sawing the air too much, or tearing a passion to tatters...