Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other commentators took greater care to avoid suggesting that the President had not stated an irrevocable decision, or that he might be even momentarily suspected of veiled deception, wilful obscurity...
...denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...
...Stillman's reactions to publicity were more complex. She had encountered publicity before, and publicity is so puzzling. You never give it a thought until it confronts you. Then, if you avoid it, you feel as though you were running away from something. But if you fall in with all its demands, you feel vulgar. The only decent way out seems to be to try to make the public view of your private affairs an accurate one. You examine your real feelings and come right out with them. Mrs. Stillman, while supervising the transformation of the colonial mansion into...
...believes that trade contacts with Russia will make for wholesome reconstruction, and, further, that it is only common sense to recognize that Russia is the economic source of supply for certain markets. An opportunity given to Russia to dispose of some of its surplus in its natural markets will avoid such surplus being forced into competition with American products in markets where transportation costs are in favor of the United States...
Most superstitious persons avoid the number 13, long noted as a bad luck bringer. Some, to show lack of superstition, make 13 their favorite number. To this second class, President Thomas Moses of the United States Fuel Company, might well become a member...