Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would re-introduce him to the Prince, for whom he had worked in Alaska, and of course I agreed. As we sat down, Caetani was on my right and on my left was the Mayor of Spokane. Addressing the Ambassador, I said: ''Your Excellency, permit me to introduce Mr. Blank, the Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left ear: "Say, I don't know how to talk to this 'ere European royalty." Then I spotted my friend Belts, and gave...
...Unlike the sentimental painters who represent dreams as misty and delicate, Dali shows them hard and as severely realistic in surface as dreams often are....Dali does not permit the dream to dissolve; his pictures are, as it were, frozen nightmares...
...conference Thursday night at Phillips Brooks House, in which students and other persons connected with the University participated, it was decided that definite action would be taken in behalf of the prisoners arrested last June in Harvard Square. All the prisoners were charged with speaking without permit and with disturbance of the peace, although, as the committee claims. "Some of them did not speak and the demonstration was so orderly that if continued for more than half an hour until the police interrupted...
...Yale supporters for the condition of the star fullback, Kim Whitehead, whose injury has not recovered as rapidly as was expected. Several of his teammates have also suffered lesser mishaps during the last two games and Coach Ducky Pond is much worried that his injured list will not permit Yale to field its full strength tomorrow...
...rolled up to Annie's alley. Annie and her apples were whisked across town to the Waldorf-Astoria, escorted to a three-room suite. As a tip the bellboy received an apple. The bed was too soft, the nightgown too silky, the gold & rose furnishings too frightening to permit sleep. Annie paced the deep plush carpet. Next morning she climbed into bed for breakfast. The pressagents took her to a Fifth Avenue smartshop. Shrewdly she chose two black gowns, both very simple, very tasteful, very expensive. After lunch, to her great delight, a police escort cleared...