Word: acceptation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion of the debt settlement, the Premier signified his intention last week, of forcing the debtors of France to take what they can get when they can get it. Pursuing this policy, he cabled the French commercial attache in Washington, to ascertain whether the U. S. Treasury would accept $30,000,000 this year, "without prejudice to the unratified debt settlement...
...contract which offered a mere $52,000 in return for his 192.7 efforts. Controlling his mirth, Mr. Ruth expressed a desire to be absolutely fair in the matter. He would compromise for a small fraction of his actual worth- whatever that might be. In short he would accept a contract calling for $100,000 a year...
...York. Neither has married. When not on their private car they live quietly in one of two residences near Cleveland. Pre-eminent in financial circles, they are unknown quantities in so-called "society." Hostesses have sighed, invited them, received polite regrets, sighed, invited them again. They never accept. Perhaps they fear boredom. Perhaps they are merely preserving vitality...
...Thompson Buchanan presents his version of the cosmic combat in a comedy, the title of which is derived by nicking the heroine's name, Cynthia. It appears that the young lady likes her man without matrimony. An unfortunately discovered roadhouse dalliance leads to her being forced to accept him with the conventional wedding ring. In Act II, emerges the conflict between business and wife-petting. Husband (Allan Dine-hart) woos his Mexican oil wells. Wife (Claiborne Foster) languishes in the company of an artist friend powerful with women. Says Husband in plaintive self-defense: "A man who can make...
...clever and had inside information on the market operations of high officials. What if the banker put this clerk in charge of a Florida boom scheme, which became such a prodigious success that Floridans begged the promoter to become their Senator? What if the banker ordered him to accept, so that, by his one passionate theft, a man with a slave's psychology became an Honorable, eligible for the highest office in the land, certain to have as fine a funeral as that enjoyed by a great rascal to whose pompous obituaries he had once listened in dismay? What...