Word: shun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Presidency but he would have stepped immediately to the head of that great association." "He is vulnerable in the raiment about the base of his head where it meets the body, or in easy English, his neck: Here it must be confessed the points of his collar shun each other and the tie droops." "He now holds the highest office on earth by virtue of a title greater than that of any electorate. God made him President...
...Edgar Guest, Inspiring and Uplifting Thought Of 0. S. Marden go for naught; This Unregenerate Young Cuss Is utterly Impervious To what is recognized by You And Me as Beautiful and True. Right Thinkers all are in accord That such a one should be Abhorred; All Forward Looking persons Shun A Boy who never will be One Hundred Per Cent. American When he grows...
...succeeded not so well with some of the other numbers of her program not because of consistently bad singing of them as because of blotches, occasional hard topes which grated on the ear. It is to be regretted that singers like Miss Braslau whose good taste would naturally shun such things are forced by a certain portion of their audience to sing such worthless pieces of sentimentality as May Brahe's "I Passed by Your Window...
...broad perception of his own material interest, not from any moral principle. If placed in a position where a dishonest act would yield a profit and could never be discovered, or do him any worldly harm, he would have no reason, drawn from the best policy principle, to shun the dishonest act. That is if he had no sense of an inherent moral motive for being honest...
Fortunately the New England conscience is possessed only by those of New England blood or subjected to New England training. The sufferers from it are therefore few in number. But these few, spread far and wide throughout the country, will welcome Dr. Riggs's suggestion to shun it and will join in urging all who are afflicted with a New England conscience "to shake it off!" The New York Tribune...