Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trivial vehicle, reinforced by capable support from the actors; there is no high level of credibility, and the lines are not sparkling. Accept it as a play of situation, and recognize that no mental effort is necessary. Take your Princeton friends, they'll like it, even if they pan the Southern accent of the cast...
...George Washington's soberer moments, as certain biographers might write, he said words to the effect that politics should not be made a profession. Future biographers may say that it was in a moment of unusual exhilaration that Calvin Coolidge told the public that citizens should not accept public positions unless financially independent of that position, thoughts not unlike his presidential ancestor...
...hello, Joe," he said. And I didn't mind him calling me Joe. I have become used to that quick familiarity that one must accept hand in hand with greatness. But he continued, and I didn't just like his tone, "Are you going to make a comeback this week...
...Premier Count Stephen Bethlen has been entirely whitewashed by the courts; but on the morning when I arrived the Count proceeded to make a show of his complete innocence by resigning with his cabinet. The Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, thereupon paraded his confidence in Premier Bethlen by refusing to accept his resignation. My guide winked assurance that the Premier and Regent of the 'kingless kingdom* of Hungary understand one another perfectly...
...great deal of pussyfooting was indulged in by Rumanian officials at Washington and Paris as to whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...