Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City's welcome in her honor was runner-up to the recent Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...
This was a flat challenge to Mr. De Valera and Miss MacSwiney. Would they accept, enter the Dail, stand together? Soon famed Eamon de Valera replied...
...existence. If France ever gets better terms from the U. S., she must get them from a new U. S. Commission especially created to give them to her by Congress. The only alternative would be to let the whole matter drop officially, and for the U. S. to accept from France, from time to time, such individual payments as she may wish to give-payments similar to the $10,000,000 recently tendered by France and accepted by the U. S. "without prejudice to ratification" (TIME, March 14). Perhaps that was what foxy M. Poincaré had in mind last...
...Very deeply shocked and indignant over the outrageous murder of M. Vojkov. I beg you to be good enough to accept this expression of my most sincere condolences...
Epistles: To deny he will accept nomination for Attorney General-"When I say I am a candidate for a particular office I mean it; and when I say I am not a candidate for a particular office, I mean that, too. When I became candidate for Governor, I renounced my candidacy for Attorney General; and other candidates were invited into the field. I would despise myself forever were I now to become a candidate against any of these men whom, by my action, I have invited to become candidates...