Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vigorous aid from us, that a victorious Germany could carry out an armed conquest of this country. He does not tell us these things directly, or even indicate exactly why they may be true. And yet, his talks are shot through with annoyance at anyone who does not already accept them as facts. The President seems to be fighting against a dark form of ignorance for which he has the supremest contempt, but against which he has to play a canny game, with a few cards on the table, but more up the sleeve...
...Mourned Colonel Luke Lea of Nashville. Tenn. (who almost kidnapped Kaiser Wilhelm II from a castle at Amerongen, Holland in 1919): "The U. S. is not at war. . . . Therefore ... no American can accept the alluring adventure advanced by President Church...
...friend, the late Arthur Asquith, discovered it and showed it to Winston Churchill. Impressed, War Lord Churchill offered Walker the post of Expert in Light Armour to the Forces. Dr. Walker declined. "As I remembered that it had taken two years of agitation to induce the military authorities to accept the steel helmet, I . . . returned to my Field Ambulance." Back to bureaucratic limbo went the breastplate...
...that parents approve. She does not approve of young people riding about, dancing, and playing unescorted from midnight to sunup. On New Year's Eve she wrote: "In these busy times we are sometimes careless or negligent of our social duties. Therefore, let us resolve: 1) to accept or regret R. S. V. P. invitations promptly...
...peculiar taste. By 4:30 the same afternoon the Hollywood dam reservoir had been partially drained and workmen were ready to clean it. Wiley frankly tells his adoring audience he won't answer their fan letters (about 2,500 a month), bases his success on two rules: 1) accept no "catchem and killem projects"; 2) always tell the girls the truth...