Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second row cannot instantly give the meaning of the word "as," fired at her by "Kitty," who has just burst into the room like a bombshell. While she tries to muster breath for a reply, "Kitty"-overshoes just removed going on again-scorchingly informs us that he cannot afford to waste an hour with a group of girls who apparently know nothing about Shakspere. The bang of the door upon his angry retreat is an effective spanking administered to our abysmal ignorance. After a minute or two we laugh, because we realize that class attendance is poor that morning...
...White House, the Cosmetics Queen visited U. S. cosmetics factories with a view to buying some $100,000 worth of factory equipment. The traveling belts on which the jars of powder and perfume rode from worker to worker, floor to floor, particularly fascinated her. "Our women," she said, "can afford to pay as much for cosmetics as American women. Even our men are shaving more regularly and taking up the use of toilet water...
...house in Paris, for a mother he has never seen. He knows nothing about the people in the house; they know all about him. In a flashback to the past, the story tells why. Karen is young, beautiful, intelligent, one of an English family so aristocratic that it can afford not to be snobbish. She is engaged to just the right man; he has gone to the Orient on business for several months. Karen has a French friend, Naomi, of the governess type; she too is just engaged. Karen knows and dislikes the fiance, Max, an intense French Jew, does...
...districts. As a matter of political self-preservation, therefore, the House last week started its oblique counterattack on the Townsend Plan, hoping to show it up as a ridiculous racket and thus deflate its importance in the November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser risk seemed well worth taking: Jasper Bell, at the worst, would probably be able to discredit the Townsend Plan...
Claudia had been a bossy girl, a domineering young woman. She had never forgiven her sister Anna for breaking away, marrying a rich husband and going her own gait. She had bought a country place she could not really afford, because it was her childhood home, and she secretly wanted her children to be molded into her shape. Claudia prided herself on being a modern mother, and most of all on her absolute honesty. She loved to analyze herself before others, invite and apparently accept criticism of her infallible conduct-and then go on exactly as before...