Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not promise in advance to bear arms in defense of the United States unless he believed the war to be morally justified", while Miss Bland was willing to swear the oath of allegiance provided it carried the added interpolation "as far as my conscience as a Christian will allow...
...those seasoned cinema wheel-horses who, though they pass through periods of taking themselves seriously, still do their best work in comedies. Gloria Swanson got her start in a striped, form fitting bathing suit in the old Mack Sennett pie & water works. Once Chaplin refused to allow her a bit in His New Job because she was too solemn. Her sense of humor has now developed to the point of sending bundles of old newspapers to the staterooms of friends sailing for Europe with the greeting: "Just something to read. . . ." However, she sculpts a little and writes verse. Her singing...
...could not give pur Government cards and aces and beat it every time on dignified ceremonial." Said Housekeeper Long: "Jefferson Chase should be run out of town. . . . You would be the first to object if your taxes were increased in order to increase the White House appropriation to allow of lavish entertainments...
...Islands; Seward, Alaska; Vancouver. He carries no radio, will fly far off the regular track of ocean vessels. His worst hazard: Fogs, while he tries to locate his re-fuelling stations along the 6,268 mi. route to San Francisco. A forced landing in the bergstrewn Bering Sea would allow little hope of survival. Smiling little Seiji expected to complete his flight late this month...
...this may be true. A pattern in lieu of an individual may conceivably be the product of House units. And if faculties are such fools as the writer believes they may carelessly allow a hot-head or two to wiggle into their midst. In one of his minor digressions, Mr. Hale attacks Professor Babbitt of Harvard. From the tenor of the article, one might expect Professor Babbitt to be the epitome of the author's desires. Not a hot-head to be sure, but the humanist has on occasion provoked intelligent and original thinking; even his undergraduate opponents, and they...