Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the White House conference and Cabinet meeting next morning, Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. and Great Britain now "understood each other," that the U. S. could accept payment...
...protest against this implication is based on grounds which the War generation refuses to admit, but which the present college generation is sure to accept. Those grounds are that there is no historical basis for the exaltation of the Allied cause on the assumption that Germany was alone responsible for the War. It does not matter whether or not Germany can historically be accused for sole guilt for the actual outbreak of the War. Nothing can exonerate Germany from responsibility and any thought of whitewashing the Imperial government would be ludicrous. There is no question that the philosophy...
...Premier Herriot, patting the ex-President on the shoulder with a big, consoling paw, "You must think. Monsieur le Président, of nothing except how willingly the Chamber has voted you this aid! You must think of how glad the people of all France are to have you accept...
...week crawled through the ropes of a ring at Madison Square Garden. One was blubbery Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission as the heavyweight wrestling champion of the world. The other was crook-nosed Ray Steele, whose challenge the Commission had ordered Lewis to accept...
...Though figure-head-hunting politicians were after him all the time Sherman steadily kept clear of politics. A smarter man than Grant, he saw what politicians had done to his old friend. He once & for all spiked talk of drafting him for the Presidency by saying: "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." When Death finally came for him in 1891 Sherman was 71. At his military funeral in Manhattan, on a raw February day, a bystander urged one of the aged pallbearers to put on his hat, warned him he might catch his death...