Word: disallowance
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...himself, began celebrating his daily Mass in its tiny chapel. His down-&-outers could attend, or not, as they pleased. Unlike some other charitarians, Father Rice asks neither hymn singing, work nor money from his guests, declaring that he aims to give them "the privacy which most social agencies disallow." His flophouse costs $500 a month, which Father Rice raises, keeps in an unlocked drawer. The drawer has never been robbed...
Another resolution, expressing the Union's belief that the law was illegal, declared that "a written request be sent the Attorney-General at Quebec asking for the law's repeal and that Premier King be asked to disallow...
...whiskey Toby bought while drunk in a strange speakeasy and left behind in the apartment by mistake. As Ann slowly recovers, Toby gets to work in earnest, sells some stories, writes a novel. The outcome, in suspense up to the last page, few will be so cynical as to disallow. It is a book calculated to make old men sigh, young men dreamy, newspaperwomen reminiscent...
...legal question involved is whether the War Department has the right to permit or disallow the diverting of water from Lake Michigan, "pending legislation by Congress...
...convictions of the republican students. Membership in the club shows a man's devotion to the principles in which he believes-principles which seem to him essential to the welfare of his country. Politics and religion are both vital subjects. The rule of the University has not been to disallow privileges to religious organizations of one sect or another, on the ground that some of them must be wrong, and therefore all must be excluded. The rule has been, rather, that all should be given the use of the University buildings, in order to allow free play of opinion...