Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although his spiked heel has recovered, Art Johns is now suffering from a wrenched knee which will not permit his participation today. Dick Grondahl, utility outfielder, will be stationed at second in place of the ailing second sacker. With the exception of Allan and Johns, Mitchell will start his regular lineup against New Hampshire...
...grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
...possibilities of a rip-snorting plot, the score abounded in old turns and phrases, was at its best when it borrowed obviously from Wagner. Set songs were brought off skilfully but they often sounded banal. The text was happy, fitted the music better than most U. S. operas permit. Since opera needs a soprano, Authors Damrosch & Guiterman interpolated a new character, Mary Rutledge, as Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously wrings her hands in the back of the courtroom. When he is exiled, she follows him to Gibraltar. Boarding ship, Mary begs...
...preachment against war, They Gave Him A Gun would be more persuasive if it did not permit the impression that experience in the trenches may have improved Fred about as much as it weakened Jimmy. As melodrama, it would be more effective if Director W. S. Van Dyke had avoided more of the cliches that tend to attach themselves to all pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals...
Though probably no fairer and more farsighted employer lives in America, Mr. Ford does not embrace leftist viewpoints. His philosophy is that of the small business man on a large scale; only over his dead body would he permit the abolition of competition and the control of industry by either the government or Wall Street or even labor. It might well be his ideal for business to control the others. Likewise, it would appear that he hates the pillars of the Republican party as much as he detests most of the New Deal policies...