Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misinformed principal of a local public institution of learning wrote that he had students "well qualified to teach Harvard boys." As yet Brooks House has not offered to accept the proposition...
...have something further to tell the House. I have now been informed by Herr Hitler that he invites me to meet him in Munich tomorrow morning. He has also invited Signor Mussolini and Monsieur Daladier. Signor Mussolini has accepted and I have no doubt that Monsieur Daladier will also accept. The House will not need to ask me what my answer will...
...beaten at the polls last year in a special election decreed by State authorities, hesitated to accept the challenge Everitt said...
With 1,500,000 German troops mobilized at that moment in various parts of the Reich, Orator Hitler began by recalling his offer to reduce the German Army to 200,000 men if each of the other Great Powers would accept this same limitation, and he reminded Europe that his offer had been without takers. He recalled that Germany made a peace pact with Poland, a naval limitations treaty with Britain and renounced any claim to Alsace-Lorraine, shouted: "It is not one Führer or one man who is speaking-it is the entire German nation...
Room Service, in its screen version, is open to criticism on one point. The Marxes have been playing as themselves too long to hope that the public will ever accept them as characters in somebody else's story. Captious critics may find that the resultant absence of illusion in Room Service impairs its hilarity. Loyal Marxists will find it well up to the standard of such predecessors as A Night at the Opera or A Day at The Races. Good shot: Harpo's happiness when the turkey, apparently gone for good, returns to roost nervously on a window...