Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonist Clark said he would move the Casino, transform it into the headquarters of the Three Arts Association. It should be dedicated to music, drama, art. He ran into difficulties. Nervous colonists, fearing for velvety grass, symmetrical trees, refused to allow him to move it bodily. Accordingly, he pulled it down and moved it stick by stick to its new setting farther down the street. It became, the Berkshire Playhouse...
...While it is true that Coolidge has made a farce of enforcement, yet Hoover definitely promises that he will not allow any tampering with the Eighteenth Amendment or the Volstead law."-John A. McSparran of Lancaster, Penna., withdrawing as a Democratic candidate for Congress...
...must not allow our politics to be torpedoed by prejudice...
...International Film Congress was declared to be in session. More strictly honest, President Leopold Gutmann would have substituted "European" for "International." For the U. S. which produces 57% of the world's pictures was not represented. Deliberately, invitations had been mailed to U. S. producers too late to allow them to reach Berlin for the Congress...
Such were the seven who had sworn "on Scopy's book" (an ancient "Cyclopedia of Nursery Remedies") that never again would they allow themselves to be separated and parcelled out to their various undeserving parents. For of parents there were almost as many as children: The Wheaters sponsored Judy, the twins, and after divorce and remarriage, Chipstone, badge of truce. In an intervening marriage to a gaudy cinema star Mr. Wheater begat Zinnie, while Mrs. Wheater retaliated with a decadent Italian prince, and adopted Beechy and Bun, offspring of his earlier alliance with a circus acrobat. When the Wheaters...