Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duties of the principate and the dignity of the purple on the one hand, and on the other, his love for Claudia ... he was lashed into one of those tragic passions which wreck men's lives. . . . He was growing old waiting for the papal dispensation which would permit his marriage with Claudia...
...Department, was a long quotation from a survey-report of the Islands by Vice President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion. Reason: Statesman Stimson adroitly emphasized the truism that political independence which Filipinos so crave is nowadays synonymous with economic independence...
...grieve only that your youth does not permit you to go with me. If I die, I admonish you always to be a slave to duty, to your country, to your sister, your two aunts and the stepmother who has served you as a mother. This must be to you a sacred duty, and to it you must consecrate your life...
...angry knot of persons gathered on the dance floor, a call for police reserves was issued, while Mr. Crandall, dodging away from the enraged dancer, was booed, hissed and subjected to fruit-throwing. Five minutes later, it was announced that an injunction had been secured which would permit the marathon to continue 22 hours longer. Couple No. 7, despite their unruly and ill-bred behaviour, were permitted to remain upon the floor...
Entered pompously, in this traditional emergency, Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster, Clerk of the House. Gesturing in dumb show, he pointed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then had leave to say that His Majesty would graciously permit his Faithful Commons to choose a new Speaker...