Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Reed explained that he had in his office copies of all the data his curious colleagues wanted, given him in confidence as a conference delegate. He would, he said, "be very glad to show the correspondence to any Senator who will accept it in the confidence in which I accepted...
...Berlin must accept its responsibility in this affair," growled the French semi-official Temps. "Formal pledges were given to the Allies that there would be no reprisals against those in the evacuated territories who have French sympathies or who had entered into friendly relations with the French during the occupation...
...President Hoover vetoed the first World War pension bill fortnight ago, not because he objected to the pension principle as a new policy, but because he disapproved of the size and details of the measure, Congress scrambled to give him a bill of the same kind which he would accept. No. 1 Pension Scrambler in the House was Representative Royal Cleaves Johnson of Aberdeen, S. Dak., chairman of the House Veterans Committee. Congressman Johnson, 47, enlisted in the regular Army in January 1918, won a lieutenant's commission, went to France in July and as an infantry officer...
...velvet sophistication out of which Philip Barry fashioned the best comedy of the 1928-29 theatrical season has not, in translation to the screen, been exchanged for the crude, stuffy plushes of Hollywood naivete. Presenting the situation of a youth engaged to marry an heiress but unwilling to accept the pompous responsibilities of great wealth, the story and its spirit might easily have been suffered to lapse into the Poor Little Rich Girl stereotype. When Johnny Case, deserting Julia Seton simply so he can have a holiday, is followed to Paris by Julia's little sister, a typical talkie...
...every respect they are a sovereign nation. Proud too are all Scandinavians that they alone have set the quarrelsome world an example by almost achieving disarmament. As part of the observances at Reykjavik last week their representatives signed a treaty binding them never to go to war and to accept the arbitrations of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in all mutual disputes. To these advanced peoples, so boldly in the van of Peace, so highly educated, so progressive in politics, police methods, liquor control and social legislation, the grim, tremendous, deadly Rodney might well have seemed as incongruous, as curiously...