Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little known poem of Kipling's, written to the Yale Kipling Club in 1896 in regret that he could not accept an invitation to a literary dinner in his honor, is shown. The poem is written in Irish dialect and parodies literary gatherings...
Since The Last Puritan is complex, ironic, puzzling, there are likely to be as many interpretations of Santayana's long fable as there are readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some lack of physical passion, the author makes it clear that for Oliver puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness...
President Lenox R. Lohr of National Broadcasting: "To accept such dramatic programs as you have offered would place the discussion of vital political and national issues on the basis of dramatic license rather than upon a basis of responsibility for stated fact or opinion...
...blindness was not going to hamper him anymore than he could possibly help. Every day he ran to & from grade school where he got splendid marks. At the University of Pennsylvania he got his B. S. without difficulty. Because he was sensitive about his affliction and hated to accept help, he learned to do almost everything for himself...
...with the big Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, Lawyer Douglas learned all that he cared to know about the current state of corporate law. He returned to Columbia to teach, having gained little respect and no love for Wall Street law or finance. Today he can accept a luncheon invitation from Morgan Partner George Whitney without a twitter. When Joe Kennedy drafted him to conduct SEC's investigation of protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire...