Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have admitted the commission of a crime involving moral turpitude, namely, adultery. The law states that persons who admit the commission of a crime involving moral turpitude shall not be admitted to the United States...
Toward Leipsic rumbled a special train carrying an old man whose worst enemies sarcastically admit that he has become almost a god on earth. A cloud of escorting airplanes flew overhead, and the train rumbled on. Crowds cheered as it entered the great Leipsic station. Wearily Paul von Hindenburg descended and passed with tired majesty through a mob whose enthusiasm would barely let him pass...
...Schacht was obliged to admit that he had written the song-poem in question, that he had sold it to the publisher many years ago "for a song." None the less he started suit "to protect the dignity of the Reichsbank"?demanded that The Minstrel's Waltz be suppressed once and for all. Shrewd lawyers opined that the suit will certainly defeat its aim?if that be suppression of publicity...
...matter has its serious aspects. The plight of Harvard graduates in extremely non-Harvard communities. It is well to admit that it is just a little hard to get very far into the hinterland of this country without dropping into the midst of one of these communities, and this is not at all as it should be. Many establishments have their public relations departments; Secretary Hoover is said to he several clerks whose sole duty it is to trace down all comments derogatory to secretary Hoover, and remove the sting which prompted them. One would hesitate to recommend exactly such...
Miss Hurst's style is irritating. Constant repetition and a confusing habit of referring to the narrator as "You," drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...