Word: admits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briand to admit, in effect, that France is bound by commitment, which obligates her to go to war under certain circumstances. Therefore she cannot sign the simple, blanket Kellogg Peace Pact. Doubtless most other foreign Powers are similarly circumstanced, and possibly even the U. S. Congress would refuse to bind the U. S. by the Kellogg formula. But meanwhile the U. S. Republican Party should reap political profit by forcing from as many foreign states as possible the admission that they must refuse for the present to sign a treaty "renouncing...
...Because the famed Votes For Flappers Bill is perhaps the outstanding piece of legislation before the House (TIME, Feb. 20), Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was sorely nettled, last week, when Labor hecklers peppered him with questions designed to make him admit that the Flappers Bill is actually opposed by three leading members of his Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...
...supporting the sceptics. The scorn shown by the sharks for Mr. Heilner may not have been the fault of the fish but of the man. Even sharks have their preferences, and Mr. Heilner might not have come up to their standards. And who is the man who would admit himself to have physical qualifications so poor that a shark would not think him worth the eating? Far better not to offer him the opportunity...
Smiling enigmatically blue-eyed Sylvia Pankhurst would admit only that the father of her black-eyed babe is "a foreigner ... a man much interested in politics...
Even pinch-dollar voyagers who count the cost of a first class passage must admit that last week the S. S. Majestic gave surplus value for her $265 minimum first class fare. The bonus was in the form of a spry though greying couple who appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs, John Robinson." On the third night out John Robinson mounted the Majesties concert platform and cried genially: "Look here, you people, I am Henry Ford and I will show you how to amuse yourselves in the proper way. What about old-fashioned dances...