Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American actresses. You can make more than three faces." Mysterious on the screen, she is plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until she came on the set, then made her repeat them after him until she spoke them perfectly. She has no telephone in her dressing room, is happiest on grey days, has an expensive automobile, admires Joan Crawford, is married, has a baby, is going...
...cannot say when we will be." In Washington the same day Flyer Earhart said: "Let's not talk about the license. I can't be any more definite than to say that I probably will be married in the next 50 years. I'll allow myself that much time." Said Mrs. Frances Putnam, his mother, who had entertained them near Groton: "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor...
Single day holidays, such as the one just past, may provide a needed professorial respite, and occasionally, when they happen to fall on a Monday, allow the extension of a weekend, but the benefits to be derived are small in comparison with the interruption of work and the disorganization of lectures which is involved...
...other hand, if the student foregoes his legal or bank holidays, the time saved could profitably be added on to the Christmas or Easter vacations, which are at present so short as hardly to fulfill their purpose and do not allow boys living at a distance to go home if their conscience or their dean prohibits travelling time. Perhaps Thanksgiving Day might remain as an old Puritan tradition, but since Columbus Day, Armistice Day, or Patriot's Day are now little more than an occasion for speech-making, they hardly seem legitimate excuses for a holiday, considering the dislocation they...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...