Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hillside. Two British officers, Major General Sir Jocelyn Percy and a Major Cripps, instructors to the Albanian gendarmery, did more than anything else to prevent an open break. The cruisers were withdrawn, and last week reason returned to Puppet Zog. He was persuaded by Benito Mussolini to accept a handsome loan with which to buy more munitions from Italy. Ten thousand Italian settlers will be admitted and Italian officers will continue to command the Albanian Army...
Ecoutez-Moi proceeded to document a case which led to this conclusion: H. R. H. is in love with a commoner; his mother has given him until the end of 1935 to choose an acceptable wife; after that he must accept whomever his mother designates...
...first chapter of "We Accept With Pleasure" is a model chapter, it is understood. Last spring the prolific Mr. De Voto lectured his students on what material a novelist should employ in the opening chapter. "I've read novel after novel handed in for English 31, but never have I found a really balanced opener," he declared, and to illustrate his point, read off a piece he said was written by a close friend of his. "This is the first which covers all the essential points...
...course, the beginning of "We Accept With Pleasure...
...career as an investigator. He introduced the resolution to dig into Department of Justice dirt, acted as special prosecutor for the investigation committee, discovered the bootlegging connections of the Ohio Gang, put the names of Jesse Smith, Roxie Stimson and Gaston B. Means in headlines, forced President Coolidge to accept Attorney General Daugherty's resignation. Further probing into the Alien Property Custodian's office, he sent Custodian Thomas Woodnut Miller to the penitentiary. In retaliation, Daugherty agents dug up a case in Montana in which Senator Wheeler was accused of accepting a fee to get an oil lease...