Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This sudden calamity he met with supreme courage and cheer. To this day no one has ever heard him admit that he could not walk. He continued his law practice, developed a wide personal correspondence among eminent Democrats throughout the land...
...strength in 1930 won a whacking big victory with 725,001 votes to spare. His success in this second election was widely interpreted as his qualification for the Presidency, a proof of his vote-getting ability. Not until last week, however, would he publicly admit a national candidacy...
...every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission he eats the apple and changes his collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when he sings, Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that he is superstitious about his ring with the Ceylon ruby but Soprano Lucrezia Bori is not one bit ashamed of the little gold key she wears pinned to her garter. She calls it her "key to happiness...
...willing to admit to your paper the following comment on contemporary Cambridge life. There have been a series of very important and very impressive lectures held at Radcliffe College under the auspices of the League of Women Voters...
...really prefer to write the more serious kind, I think, but it is considerably harder and requires much more time, of course. In this concerto there are only three themes, but in the "Rhapsody in Blue" there are something like 30, quite a few to think up, you must admit...