Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maya is a series of nine intimate scenes in the life of a waterfront whore. These scenes, beautifully played by Aline MacMahon, allow the audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine...
Weighing 216 pounds, George Herman Ruth, 35, joined the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., to start his fourteenth year in pro baseball. Dazzy Vance, Brooklyn pitcher, held out for a new contract at $20,000 a year, insisted on a clause that would allow him to play golf for one day after each game he pitched. "I lose," he said, "about twelve pounds in every game...
...Passed a bill to allow heads of government departments to settle tort claims up to $5,000 without bothering Congress; sent it to the Senate...
When President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin refused to allow Mrs. Bertrand Russell to speak at the student forum, he bared his side to the lances of what may be called the hard-riding school of American columnists. Not realizing that what was once merely nasty has now become the "illustrative anecdote", and that a polite interest in abnormality is expected in all those who have learned to take their Lindsey straight, President Frank barred Mrs. Russell. But since a touch of nature now makes the whole world read, where it once merely left the room, the conviction...
Repeatedly defeated at the polls, Disraeli finally turned Tory, and slipped into Parliament through the influence of one of his many women friends. His too brilliant maiden speech was booed. But an Irish opponent, impressed, advised him: "Get rid of your genius for a session. . . . The House will not allow a man to be a wit and an orator, unless they have the credit of finding it out." He gave them the opportunity...