Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...predecessors like himself have been Methodists; Dr. Cadman is a Congregationalist, a radio-preacher, a columnist on the New York Herald Tribune, and pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Before the convention opened he spoke briefly in Manhattan to the effect that he did not plan to accept $25,000 yearly to preach over the radio and to the effect that too many Protestant dollars are used to build hideous churches...
Published almost instantly in the papers of two continents, these and other messages from Dolores Del Rio, screen star, in Hollywood, to her divorced husband, Jaime, ill in Berlin, did not particularly impress a U. S. public accustomed to accept the quasi-private quarrels and love-making of picture people with the same scepticism usually roused by their screen depictions of the same kind of thing...
...President Lorbet of France rendered an arbitral decision which was accepted, on the long-disputed Costa Rica-Panama boundary line. But the terms he used were general. The question was submitted to the U. S. and in 1914 Chief Justice White rendered a decision favorable to Costa Rica. Panama protested. There was dispute and even gunfire as late as 1921, when President Harding insisted that Panama accept the White award. * The white potato (Battata) was "discovered" along with Incas Andes gold etc. etc. by 16th century Spaniards. The potato entered Spain, Italy, Belgium before its supposed home Ireland, whither...
...said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia Phonograph Co.. donors of the prize money, could not believe that anyone would make a joke for the centennial of Schubert's death, cabled Composer Atterberg and chose to accept a rather dubious denial. Others, less interested, reflected that a really good comedian rarely laughs at his own jokes; that neither the joke nor the laughter had in any way enhanced Composer-critic Atterberg's prestige...
...Brown has resigned from the presidency of U. S. Leather Co. to accept his new position. Says he: "I am going to get right after this thing. ... As I see it, selling entertainment, if you have the goods as the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp...