Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still refusing to admit that Charlie Chaplin and she are man & wife, Paulette Goddard announced she was leaving for Reno "to establish a ski club...
Lower than utility men would like but higher than they expected TVA to admit, the 52% power allocation for Federal power was notable as the first public recognition that TVA is primarily a power project. It was notable also in that TVA wholesale rates are 60% as high as private power rates, indicating that with a similar capital reduction private utilities could undersell TVA. "One of the most interesting angles of the allocation report," observed the Wall Street Journal, "is the flat assumption that the market will be obtained for all the power in calculating the earning power...
...life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When I came to Alaska," he wrote in his diary, between a discussion of the price of liquor and a quotation from Longfellow, "I made a resolution that I would never take a drink of liquor or ever admit . . . that everything was not all right...
Among the various plenties that abound in the U. S., the most indigenous and widespread is the plenty of Nothing that almost any U. S. citizen will admit he's got. This inexhaustible national resource is the inspiration of many a popular song (Nobody's Sweetheart; I Got Plenty of Nothin;'), of many a Negro spiritual and folksong. But it has been passed up by most U. S. poets. The first one to crack this national theme wide open, to taste all its implications and to manage to spit them out in undeviating American language, is Edward...
...thinking why the girl-and-bird of you move. . . . moves. . . . and also, i'll admit-) till, at the corner of Nothing and Something, we heard a handorgan in twilight playing like hell...