Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer have the privilege of being a liberal shadow. I have been driven out into the sunlight, not a bad thing. I have no intention to accept my dismissal from the Liberal Party. I cannot be driven from the Liberal platforms. I see on sign of my being driven from the leadership of that party in the House of Commons...
...college conditions are spreading with a rapidity which, might give the meditative cynics an opportunity for the sneering epithet, fad. Were it not for the respectful attention faculties give these undergraduate analyses, they should deserve the appellation in some measure. But the fact that educational authorities in many cases accept the suggestions raises the reports from the sphere of fads to a more practical domain...
...critics. The play may have been badly staged, acted, lighted, costumed, or advertised; it may have been,--for one is almost as fatal as the other-too hastily produced or too long rehearsed. Lastly, the play may have suffered as a propitiation to the undiscerning public who can not accept an idea or a new technique without marring its first exponents...
Marshal Josef Pilsudski, having overthrown the Polish Government by violence (TIME, May 24) and then quixotically refused to accept a higher office than his beloved Ministry of War (TIME, May 31), became last week a living yet piquantly legendary hero about whom "human interest" fabliaux were woven without stint and printed beneath lavish headlines...
...replying to Mr. Stevens, Mr. Bingham "regretfully accepted the resignation: "Recognizing that conditions as they relate to the varsity crews are as described in your letter of June second, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has decided with regret to accept your resignation...