Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only fair to admit that "Everybody's Welcome" is no more conventional than the run of musical comedies. The Playgoer is railing rather at the whole species. He thinks back to the brave days of Gilbert and Sullivan, of "Patience" and of "Pinafore." When the curtain rises on a new show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect...
...many (Perhaps 40) lightweights who do not remain with the 150-pound team, play with those that are left,--members of the House teams. There's no use pretending, and we might as will admit that those who like to play football would rather play on a University team than on a House team. The 150-pound team gratifies this desire, for light weights at least. A. Dryer...
...often, Dr. Erskine believes, the scholar's "Spiritual aspirations which ought to lean toward the future relapse into a meticulous nostalgia." Academic life, like academic architecture is still medieval, and "it addresses itself far more often than we like to admit to the solution of other men's problems which no longer concern...
...supply the proper air of spontaneous festivity by hiring all the professional mourners in the city to cheer as the King goes by. At this point, the picture suddenly descends to sorry melodrama. The jolly little king is murdered by his soldiers and Miss Negri, called upon to admit that her son is illegitimate, barely escapes with her life...
...books will not admit to the game. All seats will be reserved...