Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another Frenchman, the Evreux judge deplores his Government's welching, winces at the scorn of itinerant Moe Buchsbaums. Instead of ordering the prisoner jailed he snapped, "I will accept, Monsieur Buchsbaum, a photostatic copy of a check proving that you have paid the sum of 100 francs to the American Treasury for the account of France...
...Moscow a Soviet courier begged me not to wear my jewels. I told him not only would I wear them, but Soviet Russia would accept my wearing them. He shrugged his shoulders and was disconsolate...
Japan, according to Mr. Amau, has resolved to rupture the naval treaties and bring next year's Naval Conference to disaster unless the Great Powers accept "a new scheme of naval limitation which Japan will propose." This scheme is to replace the 5-5-3 naval ratio with something "fairer" to Japan. When correspondents asked point blank if Japan was asking naval parity with the strongest, Mr. Amau grinned, cackled, "That is a card we must keep up our sleeve. It is premature as yet to discuss the details of our scheme...
...public zeal for suppression of crime is discounted because of our private willingness to defend any criminal for any offense. Of course not all lawyers accept criminal cases. We have a petty larceny bar and a grand larceny bar. Some will defend bandits who rob banks from the outside, and others will defend directors who rob them from the inside. Every Jack in crime has a Jill at the bar waiting to defend...
...paint than in print, Nightmare of 1934 proceeded at once to make lively news. In the exhibition's catalog Manhattan newshawks discovered that the playful Jere Miah had placed the initials P. W. A. after his name. Everyone wanted to know the identity of the ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged 25¢ admission to see it. From Wall Street...