Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event the prosecutors would accept my declaration of his fine & clear record in the U. S. Army-and his merely becoming involved in Hollywood's life for the first time & bad company-my husband, for whom I've gone through much to save from death begs me to state publicly-that if allowed-we will return to the scene of his errors-and donate our earnings-to the payment of all such debts-until they & our integrity are reestablished...
...lately achieved singular importance in Washington, for a flood of new construction might help stem the ebbing business tide, a notion which also occurred to Herbert Hoover in 1929. What President Roosevelt now proposed was to end the New Deal's power advance-provided the private powermen would accept his theories of rate-making. Since utilities are usually monopolistic, it is universally accepted that for the best public interest their rates should be established and regulated by law. The general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract the new capital...
...Freshman invited the speculator into the Yard, saying he had some 40-yard line tickets to sell, and would accept $11 for them. Eagerly the scalper handed over the money, while at the same he received from the youth a sealed envelope...
...like most musical dramas, the plot is only an excuse for putting across the music and dancing, and in this case is not hard to accept when accompanied by the show's well-drilled ballet and the voices of Margaret Bannermann and Michael Bartlett. Miss Bannermann has an ideal voice for interpreting the lyric Straus melodies, and Michael Bartlett boasts a pleasing velvet tenor as well as a profile of the best vaudeville tradition. Their most beautiful number probably is the duet, "To Live Is to Love," written by Johann Straus...
...Lawyer Brandeis forced a Boston traction company to accept a 20-year franchise on the Boston subway which it hoped to hold for 50 years. From 1907 to 1913, as counsel for the people, he opposed the New Haven monopoly of New England transportation. As unpaid counsel for a policy holders' committee he learned enough about the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1905 to persuade the Massachusetts Legislature to make provisions for cheap insurance issued through savings banks. The Brandeis insurance plan, started in one bank, now includes 24 and more than 100 agencies in other savings banks, trust...