Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another and another. Baseball fans began to notice the Yanks' rookie. Skeptics said he was just lucky: he was aided by the heavy hitting and smart fielding of his mighty teammates. But after he had won nine games in a row, even the toughest skeptic had to admit that the Yankees were not making Donald but that Donald was helping make the Yankees. Last week, trying for his 13th consecutive victory, Rookie Donald, whose outstanding assets are a sneaky fast ball, a gimlet eye and a photographic mind, was defeated (by the Tigers) for the first time this year...
These stories Jock Bellairs denies with a twinkle in his eye. His more sober exploits he will admit. He helped to convict Playboy Arthur Duestrow of killing his wife and child in one of St. Louis' most famed murder cases. He has covered 15 hangings, innumerable murders, never a lynching. Once he heard there were going to be two lynchings in one night, picked the wrong one, never got another chance. Paul Y. Anderson, Marcus Wolf, Herbert Bayard Swope and Theodore Dreiser were all St. Louis cubs when Jock Bellairs was a veteran. In A Book About Myself, Dreiser...
...preposition, and to him all two-letter words are prepositions. He expects to spend the rest of his life on the Enterprise and says: "I'm too old to be changing jobs any more." His friends think he is older than the 57 years he confesses to, but admit that he might just look older...
Photographer Smith will not admit he is getting old. His hair is greying, but he still walks briskly, makes the most of his five feet five. (His small head, thick neck and beakish nose make him look something like an upright turtle.) But even when he is through with newspapering, Smitty will be all right. He claims he has $50,000 put away. His wife disapproves of him, except when he plays the accordion...
...Pratt steals time to author fat volumes whose swingtime style, alternating with simple, forceful exposition, make history's dull spots lively, its blind spots clear to many a layman. If, as some charge, he prefers the exciting but doubtful facts to the sound but dull, even grudging critics admit that in The Navy: A History and Hail, Caesar!, Fletcher Pratt has coaxed some engaging new curves into the muse of history...