Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Administration . . .," wrote he last week, "is too often undiscriminating in its interest in the novel, too likely to accept the new merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person...
...Party which has dominated the Chamber since 1895, and which most Frenchmen feel was responsible for the Stavisky Case and the black eye that scandal gave their country. For years the technique of French Socialists has been to dodge the responsibility of government, heap scorn on those who must accept...
...tobacco bills accept the Supreme Court's dictum that crop control, if any, is a function for the states rather than for the Federal Government. The essence of the new scheme is that individual states operating by mutual arrangement under identical state laws shall impose penalties on farmers who grow more than their quotas. Such state control, however, does not eliminate the Federal Government from the picture. Says the Constitution: "No State shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into agreement or compact with another State." Last week's law was drafted to give the necessary Congressional consent...
...Stanwyck) of a Cuban patriot; that his principal antagonist was an international spy of in determinate nationality (Alan Hale); and that he was rescued from the clutches of the latter by a charge of General García's cavalry. Cinemaddicts less intimately acquainted with his exploit will accept these as legitimate embellishments of romanticized history. Good shot: Rowan (John Boles) and the sergeant wading through a pool full of alligators...
...proud. Commendable from this point of view also is the implication that the former president of the Peace Society and the Phillips Brooks House representative on the committee (both of whom led the opposition to national affiliation) are members of a "tireless and determined radical group" merely because they accept the twice-expressed will of the majority. I also liked the title of the editorial--"Shot-Gun Wedding." It is loaded with pertinent implications...