Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took a poison"? Or, better yet, "he was found dead"? There are some interesting statistics on the relation of suicide incidence to publicity - sorry I haven't the references. THOMAS C. MCVEAGH, M.D. Honolulu, Hawaii. No circumlocution would change the fact that the crippled boy committed suicide, nor deter a weak-willed person from suicide. Specific mention of "a bathroom germicide" warns housekeepers to keep their household poisons in well-locked cupboards...
...Secretary of Commerce Hoover, after warning that all flood control estimates were guesswork so far, last week guessed that the program would be managed for 20 or 30 millions per annum for 10 years. These costs, he thought, should not deter tax reduction. š Arbitration commissions established by treaties with Britain and France...
...House lawn. President Coolidge was to greet them; but the miserable weather might cause aggravation of the bad cold that had kept him confined to bed the fore part of the week. There was talk of dissuading him from the ceremony. However, the rigor of the weather did not deter the President. He appeared, bundled in a great raincoat, wearing sensible rubbers. Beside him posed Mrs. Coolidge, hale, gracious, benign...
Railroad stock transactions (see p. 25) did not deter Otto Hermann Kahn; nor did cancer studies (TIME, Feb. 14) deter Robert Fulton Cutting. Mr. Cutting is chairman of the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Co.; Mr. Kahn chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Their directorates met last week. Said Mr. Cutting's directorate: We will build you a new theatre on West 57th street, Manhattan, to hold 5,000 people, to have 32 parterre boxes. Stockholders must pay $145,000 to own a 1/32 interest in the property and to use boxes twice a week. "Agreed," said Mr. Kahn...
...There is nothing superlatively able about the story's hero, Alan Wheelock, but he is swept to wealth, and away to New York, because he happens to learn shorthand at the right time. Contrariwise, the innocence and integrity which he inherits from his oak-hearted grandfather deter him from capturing the heroine, Blanche Holden (whose Democrat father is being swept into profiteering realty) ahead of the artistic cosmopolite, Roy Norcross, who fritters away his talents and makes Blanche miserable on two continents. Hero Alan meantime makes the best of a second fiddle wife, Leta, who goes...