Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except during the first weeks. Afterwards people come from suburbs and every place else. We don't get as many laughs out of a Boston crowd, because they take the play very seriously, but on the other hand the applause is greater at the end. However, I won't allow curtain calls during the play. The vanity of an actor is essential but if he has proper pride he will not stand for interruptions. He labors for an hour to create the impression that Smith and Brown are mortal enemies and then, after the first act, they come...
...Allow us to congratulate ourselves with you for having achieved this important step, which will stabilize more decidely than ever Italy's economic life and finances. We of New York and our house in London are extremely happy at having been able to collaborate with you to such an end. We renew for you our best wishes...
...Joke." Stocky, ruddy James V. McClintic, Oklahoma Democrat, arose vexatiously soon after the reading-of-the-journal one day. "Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House," said he, "some one has introduced a bill, and has signed my name to it, which, if enacted into law, would allow the Secretary of the Navy to buy for every officer of the Navy, a Cadillac, a Packard, or a Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy...
...year man who failed to get higher than D in his physical examination at the opening of the college year was forced to take this type if exercise. As soon as these men have brought up their grade to a C or higher, the instructor, N. W. Fradd, will allow them to elect their own favorite sport or form of exercise...
...accommodate men with early classes, it has been decided to allow the reservation of ten of the courts from 5.15 to 5.45 o'clock on the evening previous to the day on which they will be used. The rest will be open to registration at 8.30 o'clock in the morning, as they are at present...