Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
These men represent what next September should represent. In addition, they have a sense of humor sufficiently robust that the impressive ogre of the three centuries of Harvard traditions will not distract their attention from what the great event really means...
...store's resident buyer, who is simply an agent employed to keep it abreast of style changes, make emergency purchases on request. At the resident buyer's office, the girl from Atlanta is assigned a small bare room with enough furniture for comfort but not enough to distract her from the business at hand. Already manufacturers' salesmen have begun to arrive. They line the corridor outside the buyer's office. Some are empty handed; others lug heavy sample cases. Office boys dart in & out carrying their cards. The salesman's object is to wheedle...
...drape over Elizabeth Bergner's slim shoulders the accumulated mantles of Terry, Duse & Bernhardt was no reflection on her very considerable talents. It does not take much of a play to provide a proper vehicle for an authentic diva. The less dramaturgy there is to distract attention from the star, many a leading lady feels, the better. But Playwright Kennedy's tale about the musical Sangers, a faintly connected sequel to her Constant Nymph, is practically no play at all. Every vital situation appears to have been almost deliberately boggled, so that the rest of the cast simply...