Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fresco. I regret to say that I have not read nearly so much of Miss Lowell's poetry as I might wish to, but in my small acquaintance with it I have found much that is delightful. And it is for the sake of this much that we can overlook the even more which is relatively flat and unpointed. Miss Lowell in the course of her writing has shot a great many shafts, many of which have gone astray, but those that have found the mark have done it with a surpassing nicety and surety...
...Basil testified: "He was violating public decency . . . sitting on a park bench with his arms around the woman's neck . . . and all that. . . . He admitted to me that he was Sir Basil Thomson and said: "If my friends find out about this I am ruined. 'If you can overlook this, I'll make it possible for you to leave the force tomorrow...
Gladstone could not and did not overlook the fact that Chamberlain had "come up from trade," while Spencer Compton Cavendish (by courtesy styled the Marquis of Hartington) was a scion of the nobility. And a comparison of the brain power of those two men would be "odorous...
When people talk loosely, as they so often do, about its being impossible to abolish war, they are flying in the face of history. They overlook the fact that we have already, in spots, abolished war. We have abolished war, in fact, wherever we have applied the proper remedy, that is, wherever we have instituted a strong court. We have abolished war between individuals, families, cities, states, and now are abolishing it between nations...
...theory, or pretext, that they must be impartial in local party feuds, these magistrates were never natives of the city which they were appointed to govern. Far be it from Signor Mussolini to overlook the advantages of this mediaeval method of centralization. Appointees of the national government will soon supplant locally elected mayors...