Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above mentioned issue on page 13 in an article entitled "Bombs," you mention a supposed bombardment of a market of several rebel villages in the Riff. Permit me to inform you that your correspondent was . . . misinformed. There are none and have been no rebellious tribes in the Riff since the spring of 1927 when . . . the last of the partisans of Aid el Krim [were] subdued and brought under French control. . . . Since then the Riff has been absolutely peaceful, on the French side of the divide at least...
...troops apparently loyal to the Bratiano regime. In these circumstances, Dr. Maniu told his peasants to wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano's resignation, but agreed to permit the peasants a demonstration. So next day, preceded and followed by a detachment of Rumanian cavalrymen and shaded fitfully by esquadrilles of bombing planes, 5,000 peasants began a decorous parade from Alba Julia to Bucharest...
...that expressed by its own membership in desiring a revival of those occasions on which Harvard and Princeton undergraduates are freely thrown in contact with each other. The sources from which both colleges draw their students, the traditions and aims of the colleges themselves are too nearly similar to permit any breach, athletic or otherwise, to be of more than temporary standing...
...closing, permit me to chuckle over the typical sportswomanship of Subscribess Whitsitt when she offers to "bet" that I have not "taken an air trip over to Paris more than 50 times." Clearly the good lady fancies she would be betting on a sure thing, so I shall not inform her how many times I have "taken an air trip over to Paris"-from London...
This done, the deputies returned and made report. Last week L. Osservatore Romano, official press spokesman for the Vatican, passed judgment on the fountain. In an editorial, it urged Prince Potenziani, Governor of Rome, to remove the "coarse exhibition," under the police regulations which permit him to protect the public against indecency. The official unveiling of the statue was postponed; crowds came hustling into the Square and stared at the fountain, from which no water rose...