Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That I tried awfully hard to do and I must say that all that enormously increased my respect for the Press. Many of the things were very technical and I was terribly shaky on them myself. I tried to express what I thought was true but I must admit I read the press reports the next morning to find out what was true, because you took my rather vague words and interpreted them into what was actually true...
...children's unusually fast growth. My probable reason for noticing this error (if error it be) is that I was very much amused at your first description of family man Curtius and his bachelor friend. Brüning. Though a "bungler" and lacking genius, you must admit that Husband Curtius is no ordinary man, according to the above statements...
...Counsel Seabury knew, typical Tammany tactics: Say nothing, admit nothing, lie low. During the Seabury inquiry into the city's police and judiciary a long parade of vice squad men had refused to tell the source of their astonishingly large bank rolls on the ground of possible self-incrimination (TIME, Dec. 2Q, et seq.). Tammany district leaders, along with indignant Boss John Francis Curry, had refused en masse to waive their constitutional immunity for questioning. "They love to wave the Stars & Stripes," sang the Press, "but will not waive immunity...
...Enclosure at Ascot. Royal influence means nothing at all to the Squadron's admission committee. Sir Thomas Lipton, probably the best known yacht owner in the world, was one of Edward VII's best friends. Despite all King Edward's blustering, the squadron consistently refused to admit Sir Thomas. No reasons were ever given, but gossipeers said it was because Sir Thomas was "in trade," that his America's Cup racing was considered pure advertising for Lipton's Tea. A few yachtsmen have made the additional point that for all Sir Thomas's racing...
...were still confronting one another when the door was flung open to admit the Emperor himself. A horrible moment. As well as I knew the Emperor I had never seen him so happy and full of life as that morning. . . . The Emperor's breakdown was so terrible that even today I am unable to find words to describe it. But I shall never forget either the heroic behavior in the ensuing weeks of the bereaved mother who thought only of how to restore the Emperor to himself and constantly begged me to do everything to help him forget...