Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occupation for his talent, found only a $20-a-week job in a bank. Cinema magnates, when they granted interviews, asked for samples of his work. He could offer nothing, because the Socialist Party in the U. S., owners of the right to Polykushka, refused, for political precautions, to allow the picture to be revealed. A few months ago, they were prevailed upon to permit M. Nelidov to show his work. Then came weary months of pavement-pounding in search of an exhibitor. Finally, the Fifth Avenue Playhouse took the film under consideration. One bright day, the directors telephoned...
...resembles taking what one wants and flipping a coin to see if one was justified. An uncomfortable suspicion arises that the administration is marking time until revolution shall break out in Mexico and enable "the Devil-Dogs" to go in to restore order, protect American lives and property, and allow the United States Petroleum interests to develop Mexican resources in their own sweet...
When colleges to "salvage" those who have proved themselves unfit or uninterested by easing requirements to allow them to return, they are discriminating against the many applicants who must be turned away without a first chance. By such a policy the college would turn out mediocre students at the expense of many real scholars whose work would be held up the lagging of the salvaged few. Amherst Student...
Sirs: . . . Being of Western birth, I cannot allow the wonders of the far West to go unheralded. Was it too much of an effort on your part to make mention, and include in the list of the world's tallest structures, the L. O. Smith Building in Seattle, Wash., a 42-story structure? . . . L. E. Null Springfield, Mass...
...diabolic." Machiavellian maxims: 1) "It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong and to make use of it or not according to necessity." 2) "Men are so simple . . . that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived." 3) "It is unnecessary for a prince to have . . . good qualities . . . but it is very necessary [for him] to appear to have them. ... A prince ought, above all things, always to endeavor in every action to gain for himself the reputation of being a great...