Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throaty Theatre Guild English). There is, of course, an affair and there is a little accident. When Consuelo tells her twice-divorced mother and once-divorced father of her interesting condition, Father cries "Harlot!", Mother cries "Why didn't you tell me?" Only the dowager Mrs. Poole will accept erring granddaughter, riveting grandson-to-be, but Mrs. Poole's acceptance, one presumes, is sufficient for Manhattan. The veteran Henrietta Crosman does the fussbudgetty dowager and is featured in the play, but another saved the night. She is Rose Hobart...
...Federation's luncheon last week. Then she wrote to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the Democratic nominee for Governor of New York, and asked her to make sure that Mrs. Smith had received the invitation. Then she wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt and said: ''Please accept this as an official recall of the invitation...
...regret that it was not discovered in time for use at the trial. As it appears on paper nobody could reasonably censure a reader either for refusing to credit it or for concluding that it raises grave doubts of Vanzetti's guilt. No lawyer would be willing to accept it without the most rigid cross-examination; no lawyer would be willing to ignore it. It is the kind of stuff that must pass through the fire of a forensic adversary proceeding and be evaluated by the constituted trier of fact...
...unnoticed among many another en route to London. As he worked rapidly through a neat sheaf of papers, the traveler looked much like other graduates of Rutgers, other Baptists, other natives of Bloomfield, N. J. His choice of viands at luncheon was to eschew a la carte dishes and accept the table d'hote offered. Fellow passengers continued unconscious that they were actually traveling on the same train with the Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, famed fiscal tidier-up of Europe...
...favoring the resumption, even if temporary, of Harvard-Brown games. The sentiment at Providence is evidently not hostile either to Harvard or to such a revival of relations, although the first might not be an unnatural reaction. fortunately Brown and Harvard have been associated too long to accept the common misinterpretation of matters as the result of ill-feeling; though this mutual regard exists today between the two universities, failure to take advantage of it might too easily lead to an actual break in place of the present artificial one. A game with Brown in 1929 would cement this friendship...