Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First-line critics do not admit that James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) has anything more or better than 1) an ability to write smooth narrative; 2) an infectious British sentimentality. But such cat-laughs have been drowned out by the popular verdict. All but the most sea-green critics would agree that to have two novels simultaneously reproduced in the cinema* is equivalent to one plaster bust in the Hall of Fame. Last week Author Hilton put out his latest little number, the first to appear in three years. First readers found it about the same size...
...Brady' bought years ago. Minister Macaulay asked the woman who had become his friend to be his wife. She reflected, departed for the U. S. and sent him her answer during the ensuing months. Her ''yes," denied by loyal friends until Mrs. Brady felt ready to admit it, was a surprise to Manhattanites who had seen the two casually together...
Chemical officers will admit-or even argue-that it is conceivable that some foreign power or combination of powers might drive the U. S. Navy to cover, bring up their aircraft carriers to 50 or 100 miles from the coast, attack New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis by air. Lieut.-Col. Prentiss holds that, if such a fantastic possibility materialized, incendiary bombs and high explosives would be more harmful than gas. To be effective, gas requires masses of human beings at ground level and without adequate shelter. War gas is heavy. Even if the enemy had the tremendous number...
...interest reached a new high just before mid-years when the Penn team came to Cambridge and the Crimson and the Quakers found themselves fighting for the League lead. The band came to the game, the stands were jammed full, a cheerleader even appeared. Many an Undergraduate who frankly admitted that he had never been to a basketball game before was also in the stands, and when that thrilling battle was over he had to admit it was a pretty good game. This rise of interest in Harvard has had its results, for all over New England the spurt...
...Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from their cyclone cellars, wished Author Gordon luck but had to admit that None Shall Look Back, though it blew a neater, straighter course than its circling predecessor, could not be rated a first-class gale...