Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protested Mr. Moore, "I'd put a ballet in their backfield; it might distract Harvard. Also I would make Yale co-educational, make all universities co-ed. Why not help the boys...
...revolt died. Prominent Government partisans attempted to distract the populace by blaming the entire affair on U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, who like most foreign observers has been admittedly friendly to ex-President de Cespedes...
...Post sent young Brian Untiedt to distract Herbert Hoover in his most crucial White House days. When Silverton, a mountain hamlet near Denver, was cut off from the world by a hundred feet of snow, Bonfils sent an airplane which circled slowly above the outcasts, and then dropped a bag containing five hundred copies of the Denver Post. The domination of the Post, however, was soon challenged by the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, and the most spectacular of advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered...
...fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail, in type however large, can only distract us from the whole; we cannot at one time court irrelevance and desire a conclusion. The direct man is not concerned with looking through the keyhole, but with opening the door. POLLUX...
...behind the teller's window. William J. Burns Detective Agency believe that he might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed, as most hot bonds do, through the hands of a "front man" (intermediary) to a fence and then to San Antonio's Commercial National...