Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether progress is provable or not, even praisers of times past would have to admit that the historical novel of today stacks up favorably alongside its peers of yesterday. Though past-partisans might not allow Robert Graves's Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than...
...broke the engagement. Mrs. Hoe's job grew more precarious; Mr. Hoe's desperate figuring on the backs of old envelopes got him nowhere as usual. When Author Lawrence tots up her human sum she finds a sadder but not altogether wiser family, circumstantially forced to admit that two plus two equals four, not eight...
Having searched in vain for a banker who would admit telling President Roosevelt that the U. S. could support a public debt of 855,000,000,000 to 870,000,000,000, the Press went at last to Princeton's small, bald "Money Doctor" Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose twin enthusiasms are the gold standard and shimmy dancing. Such a debt, declared owlish Economist Kemmerer, ''would be very oppressive but doubtless could be carried...
Looking back on it all, Mary Heaton Vorse concludes that the ''creative impulse" she thought she felt in 1912 has not been strong enough for the forces of reaction. Though she does not explicitly admit it, she implies that not even warm-hearted indignation was enough to save the children...
...happened in a village two miles north of Spring Valley, Dalzell, Ill. Now I will admit that our jail is not much better than the one in Dalzell but the escapes in the past from our jail did not get the widespread publicity that this incident did. Then too our Mayor, the Hon. John Doyle, surely must feel hurt to have the Hon. Albert Tonelli mentioned as Mayor of Spring Valley. Remember, Sirs, that these dignitaries have their feelings hurt very easily, so watch your step. NORMAN H. LYNN D. D. S. Spring Valley...