Word: shun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature of the occupation of a man for whom a girl sets her cap. The girl who has worked before marriage is a much better risk than one who has not. A teacher or skilled office worker is likely to make a good wife. But swains should shun the girl who has changed jobs frequently...
...illustrious Amos Alonzo Stagg, "Grand Old Man of Football," whose Springeld team met Harvard for the first time in 1891, young Stagg faces his first severe test today. He is tackling a task this season which a less courageous young man would shun like poison ivy. Coming from Moravian College, a small Pennsylvania school, the 28-year old mentor stepped into a job formerly held by Jack Rothacher, rated by experts as one of the finest small college coaches in New England. He stepped in at a time when veterans were low and the schedule tough...
...Buckingham Palace garden party. Excerpts: "I'm sure Earl Baldwin didn't rent his clothes at Moss Brothers, because his pants looked as if they'd never been pressed. ... He looked very white and very tired, and it was interesting to see him and his wife shun the royalties and walk off among the flowers. . . . The King looked well cared for and healthy. . . . Most of the women who crowded in to shake hands with the little Princesses and grin in Queen Elizabeth's face were badly dressed women with haw-haw accents. . . . The Canadian and American...
Surest way to attract attention anywhere is to appear to shun it. In Hollywood, where attention is the population's bread & butter, this technique is doubly infallible. And what Montague did on golf courses would have brought him notoriety anywhere whether he shunned...
...Music 1 has been improving as it went along, and most of those taking it are decidedly pleased with their investment. There are probably many who thought they smelled a snap, and have since been chagrinned by demands that they learn something. But for every snap-hunter who will shun the course next year, there will surely be at least one man attracted to it by its proven merit. Thus the enrollment might be expected to hold its own, or to show a small, healthy rise. But this is not to be. The new catalogue, when it appears, will announce...