Word: affording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes give credit for some competence! As a nation the U. S. cannot afford to pride itself on colonial enterprises nor on ability to run things much better at home. I shall enjoy your future copies much more if you could drop those superior caustic wisecracks on subjects you can know so little really...
...only possible on the original basis; that they cannot compete with chain stores if they have to return $6.75 dresses copied from $10.75 ones, and that the present Guild policy would make it practically impossible to produce and sell low-price dresses, since many manufacturers of these lines cannot afford either to hire designers or to buy original designs...
Very little was said about John Consumer, who is the chief beneficiary of the lower prices made possible by mass buying. Smart, efficient independent merchants, able to offer quality and service which chains cannot afford to provide, do not worry about chain-store competition. But merchants of this type are rare. And while the ethics of chain-store purchasing are certainly elastic, the average storekeeper merely wants his competitive position restored without improving his merchandising methods-at the consumer's expense...
...escape from pretty dancing. Striving for a vital, spontaneous expression, she took to lunging and prancing, projected a sincerity almost severe. In 1926 with $11 to her name she gambled on her first Manhattan recital. Chronically pinched for funds she went on to hire a theatre whenever she could afford one, practiced until her feet were calloused, took pupils to pay for her meagre existence. Recognition came when she was chosen to dance with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1928, again two years later when she impersonated the primitive virgin in Le Sacre du Printemps in the performances conducted by Leopold...
...hatching in the seclusion of the Foreign Office? What may he not be saying to this Ambassador or that? What folly or danger is there into which the egocentricity of a somewhat superior person with no discretion and a sharp tongue cannot plunge us? "Can we afford dangerous Mr. Eden with the European situation rapidly deteriorating? At a time when it is absolutely vital that we should have at the Foreign Office a Minister whose coolness and discretion-qualities which Mr. Eden's greatest admirers will not claim for him-go hand in hand with detachment, experience...