Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critics did not compare him with Maurel. But they did admit that vocally Warren had an edge on Tibbett's now rather threadbare version, and that the newcomer made Shakespeare's amorous fat man a likable and believable character. It looked as though the Met's fourth Falstaff might reign for some time...
Some crack London correspondents only grudgingly admit that Fred Kuh is best in their craft; none will deny he is the hardest working. He never takes a day off. He has some 50 assorted sources he taps regularly by pedal work or phone. It has been said that the difference between a good reporter and a brilliant one is that the latter has known his sources more than 20 years. Kuh has been a correspondent in Europe most of 24 years. Says he: "At least one man I knew 24 years ago was then just above a male charwoman...
Difficult as it is for a native Texan to admit anything unfavorable concerning his state, I am afraid that your article relative to the discrimination against Mexicans was a body blow. I blushed with shame after reading it because I knew too well how true it was. A majority of the people of this state feel that the only good Mexicans are dead...
...Time for Diplomacy. Perennially truculent, Holland Smith would have been busted out years ago if he had not been the man and the Marine he is. A military liberal at the salt-encrusted age of 61, he never hesitates to admit his own mistakes...
Afrikaners Gideon Blignaut, 24 and Antonie Botha, 22, were at work in Johannesburg's Pass Office. When Robert Chanke, an elderly Negro from upcountry Transvaal, shuffled into their room seeking a work permit, the white clerks tried to make him admit illegal entry from Rhodesia. Chanke insisted that he lived in a Transvaal kraal, had a right to work in Johannesburg...