Word: reject
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irritation an offer from U. S. Armsquisitor Nye to dump into his lap all dirt discovered by the U. S. Senate which could be thrown at Britons, Mr. MacDonald announced that a Royal Commission of Armament Inquiry will shortly be formed with full powers, full authority to accept or reject Senate dirt...
...What's the use? If you don't have a big name, the editors won't even look at your manuscript. . . . Why, there's better stuff rejected every day, than what gets into print. . . ." As to every editor who ever bought a piece of fiction, that chronic complaint of obscure authors came again & again to Editor Sumner Newton Blossom of American Magazine. He knew it to be nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn...
Near Quitman, Miss., Sanders Moss forbade Floyd Watson to court his daughter. Angered, Suitor-Reject Watson shot & killed Mother Moss, Father Moss, Daughter Moss, Nephew Moss, then wounded a fifth Moss and two companions...
...Boston "Advertiser" front page. The Boston "Globe," with gentlemanly discretion, intimated that the convention had not been highly in favor of the Curley scheme thus: "Mayors Shy On Big Work Loans." "84 Communities Would Consider If U. S. Pays Half." Courageous and forthright was the Boston "Sunday Herald." "Mayors Reject Curley's $100,000,000 Housing Proposals," it said...
...general issue of National Government (i. e. rule by Conservatives under an outcast Laborite Prime Minister) was well to the fore. From the standpoint of the Briton in the street there is something tricky about the "National Government." He had a chance last week to approve or reject the able trick that has given Great Britain a balanced budget, revived her industry by tariffs and made bankers and blue bloods feel safe. What would be the verdict...