Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large debt last week for Paramount which, like all cinema companies, had been sweating financial blood. But a half-interest in Columbia was worth more than four millions to William Paley. He offered to buy Paramount's half-interest for $5,200,000. Paramount hastened to accept, bought back its 48,000 shares, had more than $1,000,000 left over. Bill Paley had his whole diamond, now grown to Ritzian proportions. He put it in his pocket, sailed for Nassau and a rest...
...accept T. N. T. as a menace to liberal thought is to dignify an extravagant and abusive propaganda beyond its merits. To rush to the defence of Professor Einstein or fight for the good name of "Comrades" Dewey, or Frankfurter with the temperate sword of common sense is to reach for a sledge hammer when one is bitten by a flea. Better by far to accept the "little volume" as a simple gift of the gods sent to relieve the tedium of depression and that irritating Eastern imbroglio. This is after all "that best of all possible worlds" in which...
...This wonderful sanctuary," cried Dr. Norwood last week, "is filled with presences and faces, and I accept them all as good chums of mine. . . . Joan of Arc, one of my favorite saints, marches across the marble, and in the marble altar, given by Maria Dehon Polk in memory of my son, I can see my son's face, as he looked when a small...
...direction of Von Sternberg is as usual obvious because of its elusiveness. His China is unbelievably like the China we had always hoped to see; and once we have watched the Express crawl between the overhanging rafters of an ancient city, chasing foolish chickens before, it is difficult to accept a more prosaic film. To have seen Shanghai Lily looking like a caged imperial tiger as her black gown swirls about her is to have seen a figure that spoils one for lesser women...
Princeton University telephoned to Herbert ("Fritz") Crisler, athletic director at the University of Minnesota, to offer him the job of coaching Princeton's football teams. "I'll be glad to accept," said Director Crisler to President Hibben, "if you'll put it in writing...