Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly significant, because it is hard to get up any particular interest in Captain Blackbird, his kidnapped wife, his two daughters, the shipwrecked hero, or Waki, the villainous villain. The picture was filmed in the islands and the best of it is where the plot is set aside to allow the natives-of both sexes-to do their stuff. There is a lot of atmosphere-palm trees and Wak-Waks, and Fatu-liva eggs bounding about the screen...
...Department of Slate at Washington. If it had been recognized it could have brought suit, since, as a matter of comity, that privilege is accorded to de jure sovereigns. But it could not have been made a party defendant, because, for obvious reasons, the law does not allow one sovereign to be brought before the municipal courts of another...
...cost. "If I am asked to the White House," he says, "or to any other state occasion. I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm." It is thought that the shoes, of a rich ochre tint and big enough to allow free play to legislative toes, will save him the necessity of going further, but he magnanimously concedes: "If my constituents wish me to do so, I shall go to the extreme of donning overalls." It will doubtless be interesting to observe the effect of six years' exposure to the civilizing...
WISDOM'S DAUGHTER ? H. Rider Haggard?Doubleday ($1.75). The host of Mr. Haggard's readers will allow neither famine, pestilence, nor the injured moans of the sophisticated to keep them from his latest work. This is another novel in the manner of She, about a woman who is unfortunately made to live 2,000 years...
...Class A preparatory schools, but this event will probably be replaced by an exhibition relay between the champion Freshman quartet and the Huntington School team, the only Class A runners entered. The reason assigned for Exeter's failure to participate is that their schedule is too full to allow any additional races...