Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comment. Of course nearly every one had remarks to offer...
...Valentin Conrart, secretary to Louis XIII, received each week in his house eight of the literary lights of the period. It was not long before Cardinal Richelieu heard of the meetings and, wishing to control the litterateurs as he controlled everybody else, he offered his protection and promised a royal charter to the society. Most of the habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King...
...course, "English 47," and soon attracted members from outside the Harvard enrollment. Young women from Radcliffe College and Boston Town joined in the productions, budding playwrights from other colleges took "English 47" as postgraduate work. Theatredom and the critics cocked an eye whenever the Workshop had something new to offer, and one Broadway producer offered a standing prize of $500 for the best Workshop play each year...
...books through the courtesy of the Harvard Cooperative Society, and nothing would give more pleasure than to buy all of them, or nearly all. But this must be a pleasure deferred, though if anything would make a journalist spend his money, it is the professional pride roused by the offer of "The Sensitive Plant." Books are always a temptation that must be resisted...
...Price of a Party. New York again. Broadway with its surface of enamel happiness and hidden tears. A good girl with a sick mother. An offer of much money for a bit of shady business. Mother to get well on the money, of course. A vampire to solve the situation and wring happiness out of a dripping conclusion. Hope Hampton to play it in association with Harrison Ford, Mary Astor and Dagmar Godowsky...