Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officials of the Fiume Free State Government, controlled by Italians. Mussolini "magnanimously" gave Belgrade until Sept. 15 to ratify her delegates' decision. But circumstances have changed. Italy has seized Corfu. If Italy remains at Corfu, Yugo-Slavia will be so hemmed in that she cannot afford to allow her rights in Fiume to be abandoned to the master of the black-shirted legions, who first scowls at Greeks and Slavs from his massive desk at the Palazzo Chigi, and then, to show his sangfroid, dashes off to the motor races at Milan...
...will fear the Argentine to pieces in the early rounds. The result will lie in Firpo's ability to pick up the pieces. He must allow himself to be pounded to a pulp dispassionately. He must retain enough vitality to explode the dynamite of his right hand in the hole which the champion must leave in his defense before the fight is done. Expert opinion judges him unskilled to do these things...
...Stern? Knopf ($2.00). Robert Carruthers occupied it?he was the little pig who stayed at home making ornamental shelves while Leonora, his wife, one of the brightest stars of the British stage, informed interviewers how sincerely she yearned for the simple, homey existence her public would never really allow her. But when she got her chance at true domesticity?and her daughter, Faith, as the result of Robert's mild engineering, made a howling success of a part supposedly written for Leonora?she found the back seat a little too hard for her temperament and returned to the stage...
...Paris under Lieutenant Griffith. ... He was promised $1,000 to get me dead or alive. Americans don't dare try these jobs themselves. They get the worst thugs in Europe. I could have got out of the war by paying $15,000. Why don't they allow me to return...
...British Commission of Liquidation and Control of the Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, made an appeal on behalf of the Patriarchate, at a luncheon of the American Committee on the Preservation of Sacred Places at the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan, last week. It is not expected that America and England will allow the cradle of Christianity to suffer permanent decay. Richard the Lion Hearted would turn in his grave...