Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Walker had been chosen to make the big speech and accept the memorial for the nation partly because he had helped raise the money, partly because friends of Governor Smith were influential in the memorial association, partly because James John Walker, regarded as a "wisecracker" at home, is accounted a popular orator in the South...
...Osservatore Romano under the charter of a strictly private corporation, but indicates its true status by printing daily as its device the Papal mitre and crossed keys. He maintains absolute the decorum of L'Osservatore's news and editorial columns, but does not scorn to accept advertisements of fountain pens, filing cabinets, asperin, hair tonics, and that esteemed internal remedy Le Pillole Pink...
...immediate reply of Signor Mussolini to this frontal attack was a speech to his Cabinet Council in which he said that "If the State does not accept . . . the duty ... of integral preparation of future citizens ... it purely and simply gambles away its right to existence...
...Wall Street. When he gave a dinner it was well attended. At one such dinner he presented his idea of a trust company that would not compete for business with commercial banks; but would act as the fiduciary agent for state and national banks throughout the country, and would accept as deposits the reserve funds of other banks...
...view of the pressure of duties and responsibilities which are always upon me, I have felt I ought not to accept this invitation. On the other hand, my interest in the colored race and in the problems which it involves is urging me to say yes. Because of the splendid work which you are doing at Fisk University and because under your leadership this institution gives promise of being an instrumentality of widespread service to the whole colored race, I am yielding to my impulses and disregarding my judgment and am going to accept with pleasure your invitation...