Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paul Poiret, Parisian dressmaker, last week flayed the indecency of short skirts. Said he: "Parisian dressmakers are forced to admit they are in perfect accord with Pope Pius. . . . Women have lost by want of mystery. . . . Modern woman should wear skirts a trifle longer and more decent...
Citizens of the U. S. could only admit, shamefacedly, that prisoners in many U. S. city jails are shamefully underfed by profiteering keepers. For example, such a state of affairs was exposed, last year, in the "Model City," Cleveland...
...League by Henri A. Junod, President of the International Society for the Protection of Natives. Declared Professor Buell, in effect: "Firestone forced its way into Liberia. The U. S. State Department and Herbert Hoover brought pressure to bear to make the Liberian government accept the refinancing operations and admit Firestone rubber. Eventually, the lands of the natives will be confiscated. Through the terms of the loan, through U. S. financial advisers, a closed door has been established. It will end in peonage." Shocked, the State Department issued vigorous and sweeping denials. The Firestones have used...
Nominee Smith's reply to his colleague's warning was a decision to let well enough alone and not have any Southern campaign headquarters. To do otherwise, he thought, would be to admit and thus foster uncertainty about the South. Following this news, National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia was reported to have laid aside his anti-Smith sentiments. And from North Carolina came word that the last really potent political boss against Smith-Senator Furnifold M. Simons-was going to "stand hitched" and perhaps even draw his weight...
Edward of Wales, it appeared, had been told that workpeople employed by Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago for 50 years receive a key by means of which they can admit themselves to lavatories otherwise reserved for executives...