Word: eschewing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation in the bosoms of embattled Democrats. He was expected to eschew political pap, offer a program of progress...
...newspaper and affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs. Messrs. Patterson and McCormick of the Chicago Tribune and Liberty are close to inherited interests in great corporations, not publishing, but they eschew directorates. Ogden M. Reid of the New York Herald-Tribune and Daniel Rhodes Hanna Jr. of the Cleveland News, like them inheritors of stock interests, were obliged to assume a few directorates. Edward Douglas Stair, seemingly alone of publishers, has deviated...
...Gossip even says that Mrs. Coolidge does not go out at night now because she does not wish to accompany the President. The truth, however, is that Mrs. Coolidge's attack of grippe so weakened her that she is forced to be most careful and eschew night-time visiting...
...anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that budget law obliges the Treasury to eschew deficits...
...Duke of Connaught has never been a popular figure, even in the Commonwealth. He is much too reserved for that. He has not been popular in the Army. His acid wit prevented that. The measure of publicity, which the remainder of the royal family have never been able to eschew, although they hate it as cordially as does the Duke, he has been able to avoid...