Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allow these poems to be published. Moderns will declare that he does not know so much about contemporary fashions in literature as do authors of this generation, that he does not realize the sacredness of advertising, that he does not understand the importance of royalties. This he would grant them. Yet the world may rejoice that he is great enough to overlook these petty trivialities while he keeps his eyes fastened on the ideal of literary...
...Wilbur--Grant Mitchell in "One of the family"; 8.15 o'clock...
...There is no corruption in this case as to any officers of the Government except Albert B. Fall. It has been the theory of the Government that onetime Secretary Fall received from Harry F. Sinclair, organizer and owner of the Mammoth Co., a pecuniary consideration which influenced him to grant the company a lease for Teapot Dome...
Subjects presumably discussed at the Leghorn meeting: 1) what attitude Britain will take in the event that Italy backs Spain's claim to Tangier (TIME, Aug. 23); 2) the progress of Italo-British pressure upon the Government of Abyssinia to grant British concessions at the headwaters of the Nile, and Italian concessions in Abyssinia near Italian Somaliland (TIME, Aug. 9); 3) the problems of Italo-British relationship engendered by Premier Mussolini's intrigues to form a pro-Italian bloc of nations in the Balkans...
...undertook to learn western make-up methods and practiced them even while playing Yum-Yum. Like the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, her present employment has little to do with her case. Critics, having heard her vocal chords vibrate under drafts from her super-Dempsey lungs, grant her at least an even chance of making good...