Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there should be a stink attached to 'undertaker,' I don't know. ... As long as the public insists on thinking of morticians and funeral directors as 'undertakers,' I feel that the sensible thing . . . is to follow the lines of least resistance, and admit that we are undertakers...
...scarcely disturbed the ordinary man. In the last week the question of the real existence of war, although undisputed in a general sense, has in a special instance become a subject of concern to the whole world. For unless Japan and China can be brought to admit that they are at war, the Kellogg pact cannot be invoked to force steps toward peace in the Far East...
...most peaceful twenty-four hours in its history. No suicides or automobiles fatalities, nor any injuries by knife or gun were reported from Saturday evening until Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately this record was marred when a woman in Brooklyn stopped a stray bullet, the police shamefacedly admit...
...Barry charges are puzzling. I was present at a dinner party once where Mr. Irvin S. Cobb ventured to assert that he could write a successful novel in the Harold Bell Wright manner. I heard Mr. Cobb admit later that he had been unable to bring off a single chapter. He found that he could not make his characters talk or deport themselves in the stilted style of the Wright heroes and heroines...
...Tribune management would not admit that The Graphic Weekly is under experiment for city circulation. They insisted its sole purpose was to give more reading matter to subscribers in "the provinces" who, because they receive such early editions of the paper, are deprived of many sections which go to press later...