Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advent of spring were not sufficient in itself to divert attention to light amusements, the University Theatre reveals amazing persistence in presenting double bills of considerable attraction. "Clive of India" is a good film in its spectacular way, though it can hardly be said to be accurate history. The romantic story of the young clerk's rise from a desk to the domination of all India with its untold millions, has been dressed up in splendid clothes and given the proper Kiplingesque tone of magnificent imperialism. For cinematic purposes Miss Loretta Young has been given the vastly expanded role...
Though it has apparently not been seen on the stage since 1870, it was a great success when first produced in 1696, and continued so during the 18th century. Vanbrugh wrote it, he remarked, to divert the wits of the town "and make them forget their spleen in spite of their wives and taxes...
...race track, lands in the thriving municipality of Higginsville, where he falls in love with and marries the eldest daughter of the town's captain of all industries, J. L. Higgins. The attractions of life in Higginsville as the manager of the Higgins Box Factory are not sufficient to divert Rogers from his all-consuming passion for fine horses and when he gets possession of Broadway Bill, a truly superb animal, his business efficiency drops far below the expectations of his father-in-law. It finally becomes a question of the horse or submission to the rigors of the business...
...society itself cannot maintain themselves at the present level, unless provision is made for the future by re-establishing the public schools to their former position. The Federal government, under the drive of depression, has obviated many of the so-called state's rights. It can and should divert money from building an air force "second to none" to building citizens with minds capable of preserving peace...
...Washington consensus that the banking bill had been speeded to Congress to divert Senator Glass from his attack on the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief Bill. Certainly the banking bill was cleared by the White House so quickly that Governor Eccles did not have a chance to show it to the peppery little Virginia Senator in advance as he had promised. Senator Glass was hopping mad at what he considered a deliberate White House slight and took it out on Governor Eccles, accusing him of breaking his word. Governor Eccles hastily telephoned the Senator, explained that President Roosevelt...