Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variation on a Theme. To avoid confusion in identity, many a newborn Pubniconian gets a name of his own with his father's first name tacked on. Example: Allan, son of Brad d'Entremont, is called Allan-a-Brad. Even so, confusions are numerous. Postmistress Annie d'Entremont, with a letter to be delivered to William A. d'Entremont, can usually tell which of four such Williams should get it, but only by examining the handwriting on it, or noting the identity of the sender...
...fine performance as a psycho-neurotic refugee by Eleanora Mendelssohn and some good murder scenes are the main features of "The Secret Room." These are also a pair of unusually good child actresses, whose lines and behavior almost completely avoid that theatrical sin, cuteness...
...Under Generalissimo Chiang's leadership both the Kuomintang and the Communists will do their utmost to avoid civil war and build a free, prosperous China...
...avoid expense and useless trips for persons [who are] ready to come great distances to the grotto . . . [and] desirous to enlighten public opinion on this matter, we have decided to appoint a board of inquiry, whose conclusion permits us [now] to declare the following...
...Most of the pills are barbiturates, which do not cause drug addiction. Some doctors avoid giving them if possible, as they can produce a pretty good jag, and neurotics or psychotic people can develop a sort of addiction. But many other doctors feel that any harm in sleeping pills is slight compared to their benefits, during mental or physical emergencies...