Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always impressed me as being infinitely more worthwhile to make people laugh than to make them cry. And I have found in the 27 years that I have been acting that this purpose is best achieved cleanly. I wouldn't accept a role which my wife or children couldn't see without blushing...
...they are now offering to hand over the new Lausanne indemnity of $720,000,000, swelled from their own exchequers and those of Italy and Belgium to about a billion dollars. Before Herr Hitler's government has forgotten this old-fashioned agreement, it would be well for Washington to accept this ten per cent payment from Europe to liquidate the debt. The thorny responsibility of collecting from Germany would not be America's, however fruitless the attempt...
...House for twelve years (1919-31) as Representative of the 'Virginia district just across the Potomac from Washington. He served on the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is fond of orating on historical subjects. One of his first acts as Assistant Secretary last week was to accept an invitation from the Alexandria (Va.) Kiwanis Club to speak on "The Constitution as an Inspiration for Better Citizenship...
...statements of the borrowing companies. The latter have had their reserves depleted by the deficits of the depression, yet have plant and machinery to offer as collateral for their loans. Many companies have assets that are unencumbered by mortgages but banks have not been permitted by bank examiners to accept that kind of collateral or to make what are known as capital loans...
...peace negotiations. Lord Beaverbrook promptly cabled one of his Express managers to represent him. The conferences started hopefully. The Herald proposed a modification of the free gift schemes, the Express and Mail assented. But not Sir Walter Layton of the News-Chronicle, tag-ender of the fight. He would accept no truce that did not end the gift business completely. The war went on again. Next day the Mail offered twelve volumes of Ff. G. Wells...