Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robinson: "In my judgment, it was a breach of the proprieties for all those Cabinet officers to go out and accept oil employment immediately after leaving the Cabinet...
...Accept my congratulations on your mail-bags of this morning and the other day. You have gloriously fulfilled the CRIMSON'S grand old motto. "Make a stink." Though the callowness and hyperbole in your anonymous communications will prevent their hurting the eminent young scholar against whom they were directed, they cannot fail to decrease his interest in teaching and in the course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done...
Many citizens, realizing that the President of the U. S. is traditionally regarded as the head of the party which puts him in power, wondered if President Coolidge would make any comment on Senator Borah's "shame fund" and Chairman Butler's refusal to accept it for the party. Chairman Butler visited the White House, staying quite a while. But when he came out, he said nothing and President Coolidge, too, held his peace...
...nation is not so ready to accept the dictatorship of Vintila Bratiano, a single-track pedantic conservative, as it was to obey his late brother Jon Bratiano, that born dictator and multitalented statesman (TIME, Dec. 5). Moreover the 60,000 waiting, shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder that if the House of Bratiano had ever permitted a fair election to be held in Rumania during the past decade, it would certainly have been swept out of power by the peasant party. Faced by such facts would Vintila Bratiano bend now or break later? The peasants munched their rations...
...That Mr. Loree would within seven or ten days accept a post as chairman of the board of directors for the Van Swer-ingen's system...