Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just as everyone was getting used to calling him the Duke of Kent, Their Majesties' youngest son emphasized last week that his name is George. As tactfully as possible the public was informed that persons not quite sure whether Princess Marina would accept a wedding present from them will please Prince George by sending a gift of money to his pet hospital, St. George's. All wedding gifts to British Royalty from persons "unknown to themselves or to the Lord Chamberlain" are returned to the would-be donors. Fifty thousand were sent back at the time of popular...
Ferdinand de Levis (Basil Rathbone) is a hypersensitive Jew who feels the veiled disdain of London socialites who pretend to accept him. He accuses a fellow member of a house party of robbing him. As the evidence gathers against Captain Dancy (Miles Mander), his friends assemble to defend him. The conflicting ties of race and honor that force de Levis to maintain his accusation compel Dancy to take his denial into court. There the racial solidarity that has formed to protect him ends by destroying Dancy, in a scene whose theatrical effectiveness does not mar its honesty...
Discounting the charges which President Conant levelled at the Nazi government when he refused to accept his scholarship on October 3rd, Ernest F. Hanfstaengl '09 made public Saturday his letter of reply. He demanded that Mr. Conant back up his accusations with specific instances and expressed his distress that the actions of the Hitler government could be construed in such a manner...
...LaSalle the billboard men praised their new Traffic Audit Bureau, which does much the same job that the Audit Bureau of Circulation does for publications. And they voted unanimously to retain a ruling laid down in 1915: no hard liquor advertising on poster panels. But as before members may accept such advertising for painted boards, and beer will still be acceptable on both kinds...
...made him settle down again, accept a civil job as interpreter. Salama got his first week's pay, has managed him and their large family with shrewish boisterousness ever since. As head of the Arabic university, commandant of Goundam, interpreter in many a trial and on expeditions against the Tuaregs, Pere Yakouba added more laurels to his grizzling crown. Now most famed but no longer most respected citizen in Timbuctoo, he himself is not sure he has come the right way after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large...