Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extra session of Congress appear almost inevitable. This issue was Human Misery, rallying cry of the man who during the past few weeks has developed into the Senate's leading altruist-Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Shocked by Red Cross Chairman John Barton Payne's refusal to accept the $25,000,000 which he had attached as a rider to the Interior Department's supply bill (see p. 22), Minority Leader Robinson proposed that the Senate find another medium for distributing its relief to Drought-stricken farmers and unemployed city dwellers. But the House, to which...
...speaking for myself, I accept the challenge of the gentleman from the other end of the Capitol. Let us have it out. I do not propose, as a member of this body, to surrender upon that principle. I do not propose to accept the implication and the slur. We will either feed these people, or we will stay here and tell the American people why we do not feed them...
Catholics have been dilatory in accepting national hookups. Although N. B. C. offered its free services in 1928, not until last March did a Catholic organization accept...
Such unstinted praise would be welcome if it had not been learned long ago to accept Mr. Arlen's statements with many grains of salt. Nor does the fact that he has come to this country to write conduce to a whole-hearted reliance on the sincerity of the author. There are more ways than one of undermining sales-resistance. But Americans, like all true bibliophiles, should read between the lines. There would probably be seen there a crudely overt attempt by the trimmer of the Green Hat to insure a market for his latest millinery creations among Romantic Ladies...
Pavlova started dancing at eight. Her mother had taken her, a thin, bright-eyed child, to see Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty danced in a St. Petersburg theatre. Pavlova instantly fancied herself as the heroine. She wanted to be a dancer but the Imperial Ballet school would not accept children under ten. She studied by herself for two years, then entered the school. At 16 she was prima ballerina at the Imperial Opera. Her U. S. debut was at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. The performance began at 11:00 p. m. The audience kept her dancing and bowing...