Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to say just how much the average undergraduate appreciates Class Day. The question is too hopelessly linked with sentiment to admit a free discussion. Yet even to the most cynical and the most indifferent Seniors it is a picturesque and attractive occasion...
...British Isles there are 750,000 golfers-esquires who dig their own graves with their niblicks, Englishmen wha' ha' wi' Wallace bled their shillings on every green, Scots wahighing their short approaches, wahoing the long grass with their mashies, plus-four scorers who shyly admit that the only shot they are sure of is their fourth putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch...
...practical usefulness. If, in studying for higher things, the young man becomes unfitted for lower things and regards his diploma as an Open Sesame to the wealth of the world, he may find himself outstripped by the shrewd, sure-footed, less cultured and less finicky competitor. I admit dreaming of big things, but I also admit wearing overalls for nine years...
...dramatic rules set down by its author, Mr. John Dos Passos, in a recent number of Vanity Fair, we may be sure that the play is of questionable merit. The essay to which I refer is in substance an attack upon the "literary" drama. "We may as well admit," the author begins, "that for our time there are no questions of aesthetics...
...Bernard Shaw of twenty years ago, who refused to admit that Shakespeare was worth reading or acting, has mellowed into a genial democrat of the theatre. Quite recently he has concluded that Shakespeare was his equal in ability, and now proceeds to lay down the laws of sound drama according to what "Shakespeare and I" think they ought to be, as expressed in the works of the co-equal stars. "For some years a conviction has been coming over me," says Mr. Shaw, "that Stratford-on-Avon is my birthplace." This is the greatest tribute he could pay to Shakespeare...