Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of the U. S. and his wife lead society. Their doings are always chronicled first in the newspaper society columns. But their social activities are limited to a few official contacts. They do not accept invitations to private homes. They dine out only in Cabinet households, with the Vice President, the Speaker of the House...
...tongued as any barmaid. Andrew Jackson put up at the O'Neill tavern with his Tennessee friend, John H. Eaton. In January, 1829, Eaton married Peggy. On March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon Mrs. Eaton, refused to accept her, slandered her morals. President Jackson took her side, as did Secretary of State Van Buren. Van Buren and Eaton resigned from the Cabinet as a protest, Van Buren becoming President later, thanks to Jackson's support, which he gained largely in the Peggy Eaton case...
...Last week Ahmed Fuad Pasha, G. C. B., King Fuad I of Egypt, celebrated his 61st birthday. President Hoover cabled him: "Please accept my congratulations . . . and the assurances of my high regard and best wishes...
...today" is Hu Shih, for nine years Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, and later Dean of the English Department, the first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken vernacular, vigorous editor for many a moon of the slightly radical Chinese weekly Endeavor, and frequently mentioned as likely to accept this portfolio or that in the Chinese Nationalist Government...
...Indian road. He must offer the Christ, not in a Western setting, to which by historic accident he seemed to belong, but in an Indian setting. Thereafter, mostly among the quiet intellectual Brahmans but also among the outcastes, he preached the Christ, not Western, but universal. Him they would accept because they had spiritual accord with the mysticism of his life and suffering. But where loomed the encroachments of Western civilization they cringed, or turned away...