Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer residents of Wildwood, to know what prompted you to describe Wildwood as "a hardened little resort town and fishing port between Atlantic City and Cape May," in your article of May 17 on our "Extraordinary Mayor." Just what constitutes "a hardened town?" 1 will gladly admit there is nothing Puritanical about Wildwood, and it is quite frankly a resort city. But that does not mean we are hardened. The resort attracts a very good class of people from all sections of the country. All of our many churches are crowded throughout . the summer and none is vacant in winter...
Next to formal portraits, Britons love sporting pictures best. Prolific Alfred J. Munnings, whom even the most hothouse esthetes admit to be a great artist, shrewdly combined both with a picture of sanctified George V riding in plus fours and gaiters on his favorite fat little pony Jock at Sandringham (see cut). Worried questions about Jock were among the last words King George ever spoke. It was Jock, with stirrups reversed, who followed his master's coffin from Sandringham House to the railway station. Sure to become one of the most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates...
...starting contribution to education, but rather to a strange habit of reciprocity among American colleges. In the field of government Samuel Seabury rendered a great public service, but degrees were similarly bestowed upon A1 smith, Orden Mills, and Secretary Wallance. Even the casual reader of the Bible will admit that it much easier for a rich man to enter the Sever Quadrangle than the gates of heaven, and it is hard to see how being President of "Filene's" or Vice-President of the "American Telephone and Telegraph" makes one automatically eligible for an academic degree at Harvard. Many...
...years ago the City Bar decided that although women were not ineligible for membership, it was "inadvisable" to admit them because the Association had been founded when there were no women lawyers and it could not have been intended for them. During 45 minutes of debate on the subject last week it was pointed out that the Association might lose its tax-exempt privileges as an educational institution if the exclusion of women continued...
Whatever the precise percentage of selling attributable to Europe, it was clear that the pricking of the London speculative bubble had caused a wholesale dumping of U. S. securities. For once Wall Street had to admit that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been right-in his forebodings about foreign "hot money" (TIME...