Word: distracter
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...once again been drenched in blood; if they would be prepared to make now, in advance, only a tithe of the sacrifice each of them would have to make when war was begun, the terrible menace which threat ens us all today could be warded off. "The problems that distract Europe to day should not be left for soldiers to decide. . . . They should be tackled now by the statesmen...
...Great Powers by the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. After the establishment of the League of Nations, the Emperor, or Prince Tafari as he then was, figured out wisely that if Ethiopia could possibly win membership in the League, she might never need an-other World War to distract the Great Powers from dismembering her. To get into the League, though, was most difficult. Egypt was then and is still barred, for the reason that Britain suspected then and now knows for certain that Egypt, once inside the League, would scream bloody murder for the British to evacuate Egypt...
...Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel presents Shirley Temple in hoop skirts and high-button shoes, pairs her with Tap Dancer Bill Robinson. Still first-rate entertainment are the steps the two per form in a slave cabin, when they wish to distract a Yankee colonel, and again in a street when they seek to raise money to take them to see Abraham Lincoln. Miss Temple sings Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms and Polly Wolly Doodle. She also has a new foil in the person of a plump, solemn youngster named Edward McManus, who dances the minuet with...
...nonsense from Capitalists attempting to make speculative purchases in Germany of material the Fatherland needs for its own war machine, with a view to selling at a profit to Italy. Brazil Blanketed. From a world news standpoint the effect of Geneva's lie was to blanket and distract attention from the arrival in Geneva that day of by far the most negative note received by the League of Nations since it asked nonLeague States to declare themselves on sanctions. Cabled the United States of Brazil, largest South American state: "NOT BEING A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BRAZIL...
According to Viscount Snowden, the National Government's present alarums & excursions in Geneva diplomacy are a belated effort to distract the British public from their miserable record. To advise His Majesty to dissolve the House of Commons and order a general election at this time, Viscount Snowden called a "spurious appeal to patriotism, a mean and partisan act." Stoutly he predicted that Britons will not be fooled, that the Conservative majority of the so-called National Government will lose 200 seats...