Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have had the good sense to avoid deliberate burlesquing, and have let the play burlesque itself. The contrast of the serious treatment (at least fairly serious treatment) with the ludicrous pathos of the melodrama, is undoubtedly the funniest effect that could be obtained from the material. Much of the credit for this restraint is due to director Howard Mumford Jones, the well-known novel man. He has, however, let none of the grandiloquence escape...
...Student Council's study of reorganization to avoid possible conflicts between its jurisdiction and that of the House Committees is simply another indication, if such is needed, that the Council is very much "on the ball". The Council's revival, started last year when the Constitution was brought up to date, has more than fulfilled the hopes of those who saw it as a necessary condition for the Council's survival and at the same time a step toward increasingly effective work...
Taking into full account the requirements of internal prosperity, to maintain the greatest possible equilibrium in the system, of international exchange and to avoid to the utmost extent the creation of any disturbances of that system by internal monetary action...
...marked Ambassador Davies and Daughter Emlen start this week on a quick swing in their private car around industrial centres within 600 miles of Moscow. Mrs. Davies remains in Moscow as she is "not interested. To avoid indigestion, the Ambassador has informed local Soviet authorities that they will not eat outside their car, thus saving their Russian hosts the cost of local banquets for the U. S. Ambassador. He will feed as many local bigwigs as possible, also five U. S. correspondents. Next the Davieses will hurry to Manhattan, embark on their yacht for the Coronation (see p. 19), thence...
Chief speaker of the evening was Isador Lubin, of the Department of Labor, who felt that the pressing problem now confronting the government in Washington was to regulate recovery so as to avoid another great depression. I am pessimistic enough to feel that our economic system cannot survive another collapse," he stated. "We have not the resources to do so, nor will the man in the street stand...