Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made General Hugh Johnson's labor-aide on NRA, soon after Assistant Secretary of Labor, began his travels from strike to strike. In 1933 he went to Uniontown, Pa. where striking United Mine Workers were meeting. In one speech he persuaded them to accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent six months on the Pacific Coast with the shipping strike. Same year he was occupied with the A. & P. strike; in 1935 with the Chevrolet strike (Toledo), the Edison strike (Toledo), the Industrial Rayon strike (Cleveland), soft coal strike negotiations, the longshoremen...
...social security program of the government is not applicable in charitable institutions or the halls of learning. Harvard is not required by law to accept its provisions, nor to provide for its employees other than as it sees fit. Old age pensions or job insurance--these are matters for the corporation to adjust when and how they please, regardless of the general law or the popular sentiment...
There are so many mediocre teachers. There are so many at Harvard. Harvard should have hung on to Benny De Voto if it had to offer him Sever Hall with the Memorial Chapel thrown in. I am aware that he resigned in order to accept the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature. But if a great university has no resources sufficient to retain a teacher it badly needs, a good many young men are going to regret that fact...
...Star for a Night" is an inconsequential bit about exaggerated filial devotion. Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...
...Like It, Shakespeare exhibited perhaps more spectacularly than any where else that nonchalant contempt for probability which cinemaddicts, trained in an easier school, find so difficult to accept. However this may militate against the picture's monetary value, it is of frequent assistance to its star. As an interpreter of the most solidly English of all English playwrights, Elisabeth Bergner's most pronounced drawback is an outlandish accent which she makes no effort to control. In As You Like It, the heterogeneous aspect of a forest already overrun by an astonishing gamut of classes, nationalities and wild animals...