Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like an unaccustomed cold douche. The demure plot of Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality of Laura's arrival. But Author Glenn does not overlook the element of charm that prevents her female Southerners from being monsters. This is perhaps because she was born in Atlanta and has herself strayed Northward, not to meow, but to chuckle...
...work of the League be regarded as it was by Woodrow Wilson in the light of a panacea for all international ills, there is little comfort in the record of the past eight years. Overlook the work of the Conventions as the people do, and the one achievement of the League of Nations is that it meets...
...speaking to me during this week, but they have not been as coherent as usual. They seem to tell me to look for five touchdowns or more in the Stadium today, but they don't say who will make them. I am a loyal Harvard man--big enough to overlook the few times that Coach Horween has failed to follow my suggestions to the letter--he's usually been sorry afterward--so I hope that three of those five touchdowns will be made by the Crimson-jerseyed hosts. I should like to see the score Harvard 20, Dartmouth...
...could overlook the King Albert memorial on a distinct promise that it would never occur again, but deliberately to repeat the crime in the Queen Victoria work and Nurse Edith Cavell monument makes one shudder...
...more than 800,000,000 people of the Orient as a vast potential market for our products and investments. We are captivated by the fact that there are more than six times as many in these regions as there are in the United States. But we are inclined to overlook the present insignificance of their buying power, their extreme poverty, and the political, social, and economic difficulties that stand in the way of rapid progress...