Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attracted by his declaration that the Republican nomination for President is "an honor no American can afford to refuse" (TIME, Sept. 30), the New York Herald Tribune sent a newshawk to listen to Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story, Physical Culture. Trying to look like the vibrant male who had himself photographed in "classical poses" in the 1890's, Publisher Macfadden fingered a little pile of tooth picks on his desk. "I always say," he glowed, "that I'm 67 years old and 25 years young. ... I only eat when I'm hungry : sometimes...
...convention was transacted. Ever at his side was his pretty redhaired, 28-year-old wife Thelma, one-time stenographer, whom he married last year. Though he still owns land in 7 States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough...
...tree than Publisher Hearst. Within 24 hours he had released a statement amplifying his tax grievances to the Associated Press, in which Mr. Hearst owns 19 memberships. "New York," he explained, "is my legal and voting residence, and has been for over 36 years. I simply cannot afford to be a resident of California as well as New York. . . . Perhaps I am honored by special attention in the taxation program of the Federal Government on account of my political attitude, but I do not think so. I believe the Government should be given due credit for robbing everybody with...
...entry into the European circle of a Germany at peace within herself would be one of the most beneficial things we could strive for. ... But we cannot afford to see Nazidom in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance paramount in Europe...
...could begrudge the band this trip, especially considering that its members, in spite of all the entertainment they afford, and all the spirit they arouse, each must contribute $10 dues, and must pay for their own costumes, even unto the last cleaning and pressing of the flannel trousers thereof...