Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door and there was Stiglin. Stiglin says, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'This lady is my wife.' "They make believe they slap me and finally Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members...
Yale pleads for a discarding of pretence. Its team must, "either be first rate or else admit a change of viewpoint and will fully take a back seat." As long ago as early October, we made the same plea in regard to the hollow sham and empty gesture of deferred practice. It has failed miserably of its purpose: and because early season games on the next two year's schedule are already arranged, the 15th of September ruling must go and one pretence at least be removed. When the mortgaged future has elapsed, we earnestly recommend an abbreviated schedule...
...offence. The chief objection is that some members of tire house already presuppose that membership there entities them to a superior attitude. Outsiders protest that an otherwise ordinary student imagines himself a member of a social uppercuts through his habitant in Dunster House. Members of the house will admit that this is a characteristic not lacking in certain other members. Those who are more self critical will admit that it is present to a small degree in themselves. There has been no conscious attempt from within, either by the students at large or by a minority, to force others...
...justify it. Only the queer (and apparently celibate) Tawaska has her admiration. However emotional her judgments, she is introspective, and gains sympathetic agreement when she considers herself an awful fool. You may be annoyed at her careless morality, but the passionate way she went at things will make you admit she had more than her share of courage. The Author. Mary Borden's husband is Brig. General Edward Louis Spears, one-time M. P., with whom she lives in one of London's old houses behind Westminster Abbey. When her husband stands for Parliament, she helps his campaign...
...always obvious; the pictures that make you snicker are allusive, satirical, not always to be taken in at a glance, usually are capable of at least a double meaning. About half these pictures should make you laugh ; you may snicker at the rest. Whichever you do, you will admit that Peter Arno knows his stuff and knows how to draw it. The Author. Peter Arno (real name : Curtis Arnoux Peters) is a strapping big 29-year-old Manhattanite. After a year at Yale college, he went to Yale's School of the Fine Arts for a month, and considers...