Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explanation: last week the Imperial Government needed to distract public opinion from the fact that the French Embassy was forcing it to eat crow. Irate France demanded and received apologies for baseless charges recently circulated that handsome French Assistant Naval Attache Tessier Ducros has proved irresistible to 30 ladies, some of the highest Japanese nobility and gentry, others waitresses, professors' wives. In return for his gallant favors they were supposed to have slipped him slews of State secrets...
...London evening paper observed with jocular gusto, "The only essential is that the troops shall be the best and smartest we have and that they shall be accompanied by their bands. A kilted regiment would be most impressive and a segment of pipers would be certain to distract the Saarlander from the asperities of current politics...
...that they neglect important portions of the semester's work or force too many questions into a short sixty minutes. In either case the resulting grades may be meaningless, and in either an injustice is done. This is a month when many men are preparing course theses, and to distract and divide their attention is to defeat the purpose of the new educational trend...
...Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess is light entertainment, competently acted...
...this was not enough, however, to distract Penate's friends. They kept up their barrage of criticism against Carlos Manuel De La Cruz, the man who had got the key job Penate wanted, the presidency of the Council of State. Penate had .killed himself day after Mendieta appointed De La Cruz. The friends charged the Mendieta Government with veering toward a Fascist dictatorship, charged that De La Cruz had been far too friendly with Tyrant Machado. Finally the echoes of Penate's death forced De La Cruz to hand in his resignation and the political factions again began...