Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...savings of our people should be directed by this institution to the support of a European monopoly which will seek the destruction of the American nitrogen fixation industry, now so rapidly developing in ... (this) country?" Dissenters. Chemical executives, thus far unnamed, meanwhile have been active in Washington. They accept Dr. Herty's major doctrine regarding Europe's vigorous industrial attitude. But they demur at his denunciation of foreign loans. They would fight back by Europe's methods. They cannot now. They are blocked by the Sherman Anti-Trust law which forbids amalgamations likely to stifle competition...
...tables that tower in tiers, armchairs that are at once squat & graceful, a "step table" for books, and a "narrow chest of drawers" (5 ft. high, 8 in. wide, 12 in. deep). This furniture is intended for the smallish rooms of costly city flats. It is considered to be acceptable to the eye because "the exterior (skyscraper) architecture has developed a modern note of the most advanced sort and the eye is already trained to accept adaptions of this modern note within as well as without...
...membership in the Commonwealth. While firm for a flag that would embody the Union Jack, he nevertheless urged moderation upon his followers and it was through his tact and diplomacy that he obtained important concessions from the Government and so was able to induce his South African Party to accept the compromise...
...that his imagination might not be blurred, his initiative eventually retarded" he left the Metropolitan, took over the San Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
...face of an esthete. His attention has generally been focused on the theatre which he now reviews and ridicules in the pages of three separate publications. He has also published The American Credo, a sort of joke book full of the nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous opera have dealt with the theatre. Born in Fort Wayne, Ind., he lives in Manhattan...