Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed. ..." This description was intended by Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, who created the character and published the novel Babbitt in 1922, to represent...
According to Mara in a few days Tun ney called on him and told him he was "out of the contract." "I asked him what he meant and he said: 'How can I afford to pay you 25% and Billy Gibson 25% and that 25% that Gibson tied me up for in Philadelphia? Here I toil and sweat up in the mountains. . . .' He ran his hands through his hair and said in a loud voice 'I don't know what this is all about...
...letter printed in this column defending the present policy of the Harvard Dramatic Club to produce modern plays with popular appeal states that the purpose of the club is primarily to afford the undergraduates an "opportunity to get some practical experience on the stage before large audiences." Although it is not within the province of the CRIMSON to decide the motives of this club, it is obvious that such a policy is certainly out of keeping with the laudable intentions of this organization in former years, and that, followed to its logical conclusion, such a plan can only lead...
...Democratic Congress in 1930. Jouett Shouse was making about $50,000 per year out of his law business. He was not breaking even at the race-tracks?few people do. There was no visible income attached to this big political job. Jouett Shouse did not see how he could afford to do it. But John Raskob showed him, persuaded...
Because Mayor Thompson reputedly carries the city's Negro vote in his vest pocket, Republican leaders like Cook County Chairman Bernard W. Snow were thoroughly alarmed at his defection. Nominee McCormick's chances of election were not so bright that she could afford to lose 75,000 normally Republican votes in Chicago...