Word: deferments
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...accepts the use of an empty apartment where the returning owner (Ben Lyon) finds her in bed. True love is instantaneous. Menaces appear in the persons of the hat-check overlord who "frames" her, and the scandal sheet editor who is part of her past. They operate to defer the marriage until the editor is found dead and Ben Lyon is arrested for the murder. When this mistake has been corrected and all the tentacles of the octopus city have finally been disengaged, the happy pair, trying to be respectively playful and poignant, go off to get married...
...expended not in lieu of State or local relief but to be supplemental thereto, if, when, and as necessary. "We feel persuaded that the Legislature of Pennsylvania and its several political subdivisions have not done their full duty with respect to furnishing funds for relief purposes. . . . We shall defer action until we know what the Legislature will do for the relief of its own people...
Admitted to the President's office, the Feagans stated their case, told how they had persuaded the Governor of Michigan to defer extradition. They wanted President Hoover to use his influence to release Father Feagan...
...crowd into the next week some of the lectures formerly scheduled for next term. The plays written by students which were to be presented next month will be indefinitely postponed. Eugene O'Neill, the eminent playwright, who was to have spoken at the school in the spring, will probably defer his Cambridge visit...
Many a leader had hoped to defer dismission until later during the two-week convention. Back in their hotels, the delegates talked excitedly. Alert newshawks heard them describe the opening sermons as "poor taste," "party politics," and "Jesuitical cunning." Some felt that Bishop Furse's reference to companionate marriage was "a discourteous slap against Judge Lindsey in his home town...