Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although interested in medicine, she would not allow a male doctor to attend her. When her graduating gown was delayed, and a tactless youth offered to lend her his, she almost fainted. "What? Lady graduate in man's gown?" she said, and went back to China a devout Christian...
Died. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, 66, militant-liberal Episcopal minister; of uremic poisoning, following an appendix operation; at Mount Kisco, N. Y. Bishop Manning of New York refused to allow him to become Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig's third husband...
...sphere. But you induced me to take advantage of the offer to make a gift of TIME. So I sent you the name of my esteemed friend. I had almost forgotten the effect of your persuasiveness, until I received a letter the other day. TIME had resurrected the lost. Allow me to quote from the letter of my friend : . . . "I get a great deal of enjoyment out of reading TIME each week as it comes in. It is just the thing for a busy prac tical person." A. K. GlNSBURG American Potash & Chemical Corp. Trona, Calif. No Such Organization...
There were plenty of people to cry, out of long habit, "There ought be to a law. . . ." Others, angry, were for punishing judges who allow themselves to be seduced by the thought (if not by anything more tangible) that "it will leak out anyway." A few realized that the only medicine for a sick society is an overdose of the original poison. It remained to be seen if the Browning filth would give rise to an antibody in the public current of thought, or if a still fouler injection was inevitably in store...
...radio has turned from accounts of the pitcher wiping off the ball and the halfback knocking the dirt out of his cheeks long enough to allow a work from the other side. Station WTIC has opened its mouthpiece to Professor Odell Shepard who has much fault to find with the American idea of sport and with college sport in particular. Professor Shepard thinks the whole trouble lies in our lack of a spirit of play. Business men for instance he claims play golf merely to keep fit for more business. What is important to them is not the actual play...