Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is one of a spiritual struggle, and its portrayal is therefore stripped of both sexual passion and physical desire. One must allow his mind to be cast in the mood in order to get any great feeling of power from the picture. The direction lags at times, but for the most part would have been worthy of Pudowkin himself, than whom there is no greater. Aside from all ballyhoo, this is a super-production...
...argument is advanced on behalf of the Government that it would be detrimental to the administration of the law to allow questions to jurors as to racial or religious prejudices. We think it would be far more injurious to permit it to be thought that persons entertaining disqualifying prejudice were allowed to serve as jurors and inquiries designed to elicit the fact of this disqualification were barred. No surer way could be devised to bring the processes of justice into disrepute. . . . Despite the privileges accorded to the Negro, we do not think it can be said that the possibility...
...joked, junketed to race tracks, sat up all night at wild parties, entertained Hollywood and ignored the city's problems. . . . The Mayor of New York has no right to allow the vagaries of his private life to interfere with reasonable attention to the responsibilities of his great office...
...hour on the air and get his program published free in practically all the newspapers in the country. Radio itself is not a good buy, but material in the newspapers about radio programs is a good buy. I suggest that we do not allow radio broadcasters to collect cash for advertising we are giving their clients...
...present sanctioned only for the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, would be in the discretion of a Bishop or an ecclesiastical court which the new Canon proposes to establish. Also administered by Bishop or court would be annulment-the only means by which the Church would allow a marriage to be dissolved-on nine grounds: 1) Lack of free consent; 2) Failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; 3) Impotence of either party; 4) Mental deficiency of either party sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice; 5) Insanity of either party; 6) Consanguinity...