Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York and spent the day deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock Alley, memories of the Bradley-Martin ball...
...drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will, by common agreement, observe it in the breach as we do some of our old Stuart blue laws...
Inspector Hoover's conclusions were in agreement with those given in U.S. District Court before Commissioner Francis A. O'Neill, by two government experts assigned to the independent investigation there...
...would not allow the play to go on uncensored, for fear of consequences which must be cataclysmic, since they are unnamed, and they were afraid, according to Mr. Casey, that the actors would not abide by any alterations in the text, but shoot the whole works, in defiance of agreement. There is, apparently, no trust in the mart of decency...
Five lettermen will be in the starting lineup of the University hockey team which opens the local season with the M.I.T. sextet at the new Boston Garden at 3.15 o'clock this evening. As was the case last year, the coaches by mutual agreement will waive the ruling limiting the teams to six substitutes, with the result that three and possibly four complete teams will have an opportunity to participate in the game for the University this evening...