Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice Mr. Wallen says that I was busily engaged in chewing Granger Twist tobacco. I will admit that I was chewing tobacco, but it was not Granger Twist and Mr. Wallen was as near correct about most of the things that he says I said as he was about the kind of tobacco that he said I was chewing...
...week, Premier Ponicare had refused to admit to newsgatherers that he knew his ministers were going to make him an anniversary gift. When M. Barthou unwrapped his package, the "surprise" of M. Poincare was tact itself. The gift was typically French, a book. Only a connoisseur would have recognized the excessive rarity of this copy of Ilsee Princesse de Tripoli by Robert de la Motte-Ango, Marquis de Flers, with hand lithographed illustrations signed by Mutcha, and a superb binding by the great Charles Meunier. On the fly leaf was written...
...know that Jesse E. James, a Los Angeles attorney, is the son of the late notorious Jesse James (1847-82). Lawyer James has said: "Jesse James with his brother Frank and a group of other Confederate soldiers, refused to admit defeat when the war was over, and carried on a guerrilla warfare until they were pronounced outlaws by an edict of the Government and rewards were set upon their heads. With all that has been written about father no one has ever, to my knowledge, accused him of cowardice or of breaking his word...
With the crew of the Kingsway, however, Mrs. Battice was not so unpopular. Bough, tough, deep-water tars though they were, they had to admit that her feminine touch made the ship more homelike. Waldemar Karl Badke, towheaded German, "donkeyman,"* got on especially well with her. Every one aboard, including Mr. Battice, knew that they were great friends. Mrs. Battice even drew the fact to her husband's attention, one day when Africa was still many dawns beyond the hot horizon. Mr. Battice strolled on deck to ask a shipmate for the loan of a razor...
...will utilize the scientifically-established health benefit of the sun's vital rays. ... If the exigencies of business rob its men and women of natural physical advantages and if science perfects means of returning the stolen goods, it seems to us to be the duty of business to admit the theft and to make amends by acceping the contributions of science. If we were to view this move solely as an investment, on which we might expect a profitable return, we are confident that vitaglazed windows of our new building would give us that return in a newly invigorated...