Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidate, as a corpse, for burial in the "hallowed precincts of Westminster." But one dignitary of the church, eschewing publicity, made what was probably a subconscious but none the less effective rejoinder. Said he: "The Abbey is crammed with memorials of respectable nonentities, buried there by friends who could afford...
...loud speaker, its hoarse voice growled a terrible threat: "High wind and rain ... a hurricane . . . tempest will reach the west coast of Ireland tonight. . . ." Father Quinn thought of the fishermen who went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning. From the shore he looked out at the midget fleet, already almost invisible on the quiet swell...
...gratitude. To have vitalized and humanized any portion of history is to have made possible a greater degree of sympathy on the part of succeeding generations: and with sympathy minimizes bigotry and misunderstanding. No future student of that beefsteak and-whiskey decade which began the present century can afford to miss its powerful exponent Mark Sullivan...
...conspiracy to kill the monk: "Our house on the Moika was chosen as the place where the project was to be carried out. A suite of rooms there was being adapted for my own use and would serve our purpose better than anything else. My associations with Rasputin would afford me an opportunity of persuading him to come and visit...
...Story.* Easy-going Pa Bowers, a Minnesota farmer, was always having to sell more land to his wealthy neighbors, the Carews, in order to meet last month's bills. Once, the Carews forgot a payment, and the Bowers could not afford a new windmill, so Reef Bowers, pluperfect son, climbed up to fix the old one in the dark- that is where the story opens, with Reef lying in the farmhouse, "dreaming of pain." Downstairs, little Elsa Bowers decides to hate the Carews forever, especially Bayliss Carew, whose "cheeks and lips were like a raspberry. The Carew...