Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing Col. Lindbergh to accept decorations from foreign governments...
...have seen hundreds of these people driven into churches, and with doors locked, set on fire, while troopers open the roof and pick off dozens with rifle shots Starving, and under such circumstances as this yet, they will not beg or accept charity. They are an exceedingly dignified race...
...evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from behind as well as above persuaded Mr. Green to accept a post which he refused last year. Awaiting the Senate's confirmation in his new office, Mr. Green told the House that "in the anticipated event there is much to regret in many ways...
...courtroom. The jury had reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin was not guilty of the murder of her father. The Rev. Pardue said, "I can truthfully say that I have done my duty to God and the State...
...honest man and not a foxy phrasemaker. Senator Borah did President Coolidge the honor of believing that there is "no possibility of the present incumbent being a candidate. He is completely out of the race." So insistent was Senator Fess. however, that Senator LaFollette suddenly and finally retorted: "I accept the amendment. ... I do not want to commend him [President Coolidge] for something he doesn't deserve...