Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eden can certainly claim a heavy political reward later, was the general impression in Parliament, for stowing away all moral considerations last week and upholding The Deal before the Commons. "Let's face the facts!" barked Captain Eden. "If Italy, Ethiopia and the League accept discussion on the basis of the suggestions which have been made in Paris, there is nobody here that is going to say 'No,' even if some of those proposals may not be particularly appealing...
...national teapot, Recovery or no, Reform or no: and for the first time since 1931 the rumblings at home were more political than economic. [Franklin Roosevelt] in common with all his predecessors was coming down with third-year trouble. . . . Until the courts and the people might decide to accept his reforms Franklin Roosevelt, two-time Man of the Year, could not justly hope to repeat. In the Old World in 1935, for the first time since Versailles, a group of potent statesmen exercised concerted influence over other nations than their own. . . . . . . Prime undisputed rankings were those of Ethiopia...
Referring to the question of responsible labor leadership, Mr. Madden added: "It is remarkable that there are so few hot heads and zealots as there are. Would you expect a conservative person, considerate of the welfare of his family and himself, to accept a position of leadership in a labor union with all of its obvious and very real perils...
Eager has attempted a serious domestic problem hidden in a mass of racy dialogue and superficial cleverness. Mr. John Barnard as an intelligent, mid-western husband could not remake his wife because of her madcap friends. Similarly, Miss Hall could not remake her madcap friends to accept her husband into their hearts. Miss Lois Hall reveals herself coyly as being in that "amusing condition," which should retie the severed bonds but doesn't. Mr. John Flower, whose role consists of a stalk across the stage in the second act with one deep-voiced remark is satisfyingly and gratifyingly manly...
...editorial goes on to suggest that the "college should launch its attack at its failure to accept responsibility. Where any undergraduate makes a spectacle of himself at a public college function, creates unnecessary disturbances, or endangers lives, he should be subject to immediate disciplinary action...