Word: divertingly
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...have Lucile examined for tuberculosis; finds that she has a touch of it herself. In Switzerland, where she retires to recover, she meets up with young American Eugene Monk, becomes his mistress to spite herself. As soon as they get back to Paris she throws him over. To divert her jealousy of Timothy and Lucile, she starts on a round of amours. But with all the world to choose from her choice narrows down to her sister's husband. She finally succeeds in seducing him. Lucile discovers Timothy's infidelity, but soon after bears him twins, forgives...
...years ago, when King George V was convalescing from a long illness, some light reading was suggested to divert his mind. The Queen went out on a shopping tour, and returned with six volumes by Edgar Wallace, which were referred to as "His Majesty's favorite reading." We are not told the immediate sequel, but shortly afterwards the king took up his bed and walked. Yesterday Wallace himself died, the master of literary mass-production and its victim...
...primary March 15. From Albany Governor Roosevelt replied: "... I willingly give my consent. ... It is the simple duty of any American to serve in public position if called upon. . . . Our Legislature is now in session. ... I must devote myself to the obtaining of progressive laws. . . . Were I now to divert my efforts in furtherance of my own political future, I would stamp myself as one unworthy of my party's choice as leader...
...their rapid-fire testimony (TIME, July 27, Aug. 3). Shippers and manufacturers popped up and down in the witness stand to oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their freight traffic to motor trucks and the steam carriers would be heavy losers. To this threat was frequently added another, namely, the removal of factories to tidewater where the producers could throw their transportation business to ship lines...
...prowling Federal searchlight stopped to glare at 16 corporations, 36 individuals. The most glaring searchlight of its kind ever to be directed against big U. S. businesses, it challenged them for conspiring to divert industrial alcohol into bootleg alcohol...