Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasure; Boston's Old Guard ladies still meet to gossip in "Sewing Circles," though the original pretense, sewing for the poor, has long since been abandoned. There are more modern advantages in having an eleemosynary excuse for an enchanted evening: 1) costs are tax-exempt contributions, and 2) the socially ambitious will write big checks and work furiously for the chance to rub elbows with those who have arrived. Credit-by-association is used as a negotiable commodity by many of the Old Guard to do good in the world. "The very social Mrs. Lytle Hull," observes Society Photographer...
...statement about elderly widows and orphans is even more absurd. The new law would principally involve the seven per cent of taxpayers earning $10,000 or more per year who receive 80 per cent of the dividend total. Any person whose income is too low to be taxable could exempt himself from any tax on interest and dividends by filing a simple form. The accusation about red tape, especially after recent streamlining of the bill, cannot be justified. In fact, withholding a tax on interest and dividends before they reach the taxpayer would require far less red tape than tracking...
Although college dormitories are tax-exempt, the status of married students' housing has never been litigated in the courts...
Week after week, Vellucci has sprung new resolutions on the Council at its Monday sessions, completely ignoring a rule which requires prior filing of all business. He has labeled as "emergency situations" (which are exempt from the rule) such matters as the "problems posed by burnt-out streetlamps in East Cambridge...
Barth feels free to reject the writings of the church fathers where he feels they may have mistaken the meaning of God's Word; even his admitted master, John Calvin, is not exempt. Once, when someone questioned the unorthodox way in which he was commenting on Calvin, Barth retorted: "Calvin is in Heaven and has had time to ponder where he went wrong in his teachings. Doubtless he is pleased that I am setting him aright...