Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have consistently pointed out that neither we, nor any nation, will accept disarmament while neighbor nations arm to the teeth. If there is not general disarmament we ourselves must continue to arm. It is a step we do not like to take, and do not wish to take...
Last week in Washington was held the 25th annual congress of the New Thought Alliance, an extraordinary federation of Christian societies which, unlike Christian Science churches, believe in the reality of matter, take only the Bible as their revelation, maintain preaching ministries, accept ''love offerings" for their work...
...like so many old ladies. Strangers are inclined to see only the starched bosom of Widener. And she misses the ugly excavations while dreaming over the calculated simplicity of Memorial Church. Then Vag introduces her to his Yardling friends, Goo-Goo the pigeon and Grumpy the squirrel. They accept her, so she "belongs." Vag is pleased at their approval. But when Goo-Goo makes it plain that he must get back to the missus atop Boylston, Vag and she amble down to the House for a tete-a-tete luncheon, pleasantly, interrupted just often enough by Vag's friends...
Father Rice, a founder of Pittsburgh's labor-aiding Catholic Radical Alliance (TIME, June 28, 1937) and of St. Joseph's House of Shelter, for which he says "a wealthy Catholic who hates my radical guts kicks in a hundred bucks a week," retorted: "We will accept the outstretched hand of Communists only when it ceases to be Communist and relinquishes the doctrines and tactics that have put it beyond the pale of normality and ethics." Father Rice and Communist Hathaway appeared agreed on one thing only: that anti-Semitism is "Fascist propaganda." The audience did not record...
...always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says Mr. Arvin, not only because he was too hardheaded to accept the "lovable insanity" of their more extravagant plans, but because he would not be anything that made him different from the vast mass of plain people. He was no Abolitionist, because of his almost mystical veneration for the Union...