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Life as a royal, however, was not a role she coveted. "You'll be a lucky fellow if she accepts you," King George V is said to have warned his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, when he embarked upon courting the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth. Sure enough, a persistent rumor has it that she rejected the prince's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 14th year of a quiet marriage and were...
...What he can't accept is a compliment or concern, especially from the ladies. When Sally murmurs that she wishes she could help him, Sidney feels obliged to shoot down the neediness at once: "And what will you do... open your meaty, sympathetic arms...?" That "meaty" is a zinger. It shows how practiced Sidney is at hurting people; he can do it so acutely without hardly trying. Does he even know who's on the receiving end of his barbs? At one point he calls Sally "Sam," even as he sometimes addresses J.J.'s secretary Mary (Edith Atwater) as "Maida...
...When you look at the landscape of Congress, you have to accept that you’re not going to get everything you want,” Fiske said, according to Wikler...
...have never been so proud as to be able to accept your draft,” he continued, referring to the grass roots campaign that began while he was in Utah...
...simply declare victory. Throughout its campaign, the group steadily avoided any clear explanation of which wages are just and which are “disgusting”—and the point has been forced, now that wages are high enough for some workers to accept them. Debates over $11 versus $14 don’t lend themselves to protest signs, and the rhetorical muddle has cost the campaign a great deal of political momentum, even as its central goal—an annually adjusted wage floor—remains unfulfilled...