Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston has created a name for itself by showing extreme reluctancy to allow any musical show, good or bad, to leave town. The name of Jack Donahue would cause a riot where Modjeska and the Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted gratefully; certainly there is an absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime...
...They found him sad and thin, his face grooved with prison despair. He had been ill most of the latter months in jail; he had taught in the prison Sunday school; had edited Good Words, the prison newsmagazine; never, during his sentence, did Warren T. McCray, a proud man, allow his wife or any member of his family to visit him. When told of his parole, the one-time Governor had wept for a few minutes and then, in dim fashion, had begun to gather his possessions. Now he declared to reporters as he boarded a train for Indianapolis: "This...
...This very day we should undertake to allow full freedom of speech if our world enemies would give a promise not to intervene to overthrow the Soviet regime. But all humanity is divided into two camps, the proletariat and the imperialistic bourgeoisie, and those who attempt to turn us back to capitalism will be received with hard knocks. For the success of their schemes, our enemies need that so-called democratic freedom here...
...would feel silly to allow myself to be annoyed by the mutterings of a dolt like this, except for the fact that he reflects an odious and rather ill-deserved light on Germans in general (of whom I am not one). I have lived several years in European countries, including Germany, and I have never noticed that there were more thickheads per capita in Germany than elsewhere, although misguided-† like this Muller are likely to give this impression...
Warden Hendry then informed the three prisoners that Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts had granted them a 12-day respite from death to allow the courts to consider petitions for a new trial...