Word: affords
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...humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right. I've got steady work with the telephone company." Asked what his job was, he introduced himself as Walter Sherman Gifford, president of A. T. & T. After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation...
...restaurants. Why I know a place in New York in the 50's decorated by Joseph Urban that is nice enough to take your 12-year old kins to. It's a good idea because it keeps liquor away from the people who can't afford...
...least two nations, probably more. Moreover, Britain's Imperial Airways, Germany's Luft Hansa, France's Aeropostale, Holland's K. L. M., all have bid for a part in any prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single agency could afford, all interested parties have agreed to pool their findings. Thus into the pot go the charts made by Pan American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating...
...imitation of human vision appeared at Chicago last week when Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Victor Co., one of the nation's foremost practical physicists, presented his iconoscope to the Institute of Radio Engineers. The iconoscope or "image observer" is for television use when John Citizen can afford that diversion...
First to arrive was Brother David, the oldest and shaggiest. At that time Gloria Swanson had just married a French Marquis. Pouting blonde Mae Murray, then at the height of her career, decided that she too could afford a title. She took as her fourth husband Prince David Mdivani. With David married. Brother Serge, the handsomest, promptly arrived, to be snapped up by Pola Negri...