Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the financial road made smooth for the eastward anabasis, the Board of Trustees of the college raised a forbidding three fingers. Unwillingness of the authorities to allow the bandsmen to miss four days of classes cancelled the Pullman reservations, and the only music in the Stadium will be partisan to the Crimson...
...dusty place if all tastes were alike. De gustibus non disputandum. One of the most entertaining features of your magazine is the uproar of people who insist upon disputanding other people's gustibusses. I find delight in watching that weekly circus, even if you do sometimes allow too many encores, permitting obvious pinheads to overstay their welcome. Run your magazine to please yourselves. Don't try to please everybody -it can't be done. Believe me, I know- I have been editing for 40 years. JOHN PALMER GAVTT...
...Little Entente to pass a law forever excluding the Habsburgs. But Hungarians regard this law as an act of duress. At the first possible opportunity they will pass another law; but whether that law will restore Otto to his royal rights, proclaim his popular cousin (Albrecht) king or allow the National Assembly to elect whomsoever it pleases, nobody can say. All that Hungarians are conscious of is that their "Kingless Kingdom on the Danube" is an anomaly that, for political reasons, must soon be decided one way or the other...
...state dinner, Premier Poincare reviewed the War, saying; "In the noble part you played you derived your inspiration not only from your sense of patriotism but from your feeling of honor . . . neither you nor we ourselves will allow that part to be travested." General Pershing said: "An army grows to have a personality, a soul, just like anything else, and fortunately the soul of the A. E. F. has passed into the Legion...
...necessity of doing so. Men working their way through college are sensitive, however loudly they may boast of how they "made themselves" once "arrived" and writing for The American Magazine. Others, though they are not unaccustomed to work, are indeed, proud of working, are not willing to allow their private affairs--of which their budget is certainly one--to be placed even on the more or less confidential files of the Bureau. And it is annoying, if nothing else, to have to fill out blanks about one's personal affairs, home address, father's name, and et cetera...