Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an oldtime Smith admirer has felt that the Brown Derby was rapidly losing the common touch since his withdrawal from active politics, was growing reactionary and bad-tempered as the New Deal unfolded. Yet even these erstwhile friends had to admit that Al Smith retained his salty gift of phrase when he concluded his attack thus: "Some of my readers. may ask why others have not pointed out these dangers in the CWA program. The answer is very simple. No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa...
...been one of the reading clerks at the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1912. But he lived next door to Warren Harding. In fact one summer day in 1891, as a boy in his teens, he had been stationed at the door of the next house to admit guests as they arrived for the wedding of Warren Harding and Florence Kling. So to Washington in 1915 went Democrat Christian as Republican Senator Harding's secretary...
...tutorial; yet it is perfectly certain that in many of these instances the student would have derived more benefit from three full courses than from three years of tutorial. Here, then, is an opportunity to cut down costs of administration at the expense of students who will themselves admit that they are not profiting from tutorial work...
...when they finish their day of removing undergraduate dollars for the H.A.A. Buy Now policy, run off to the Somerset and become ticket takers at all the big deb dances. This is undoubtedly queer. We are not quite sure what it signifies, but undoubtedly H.A.A. Books will someday admit Harvard boys to Somerset Dances; stadium ushers and Brattle Hall ushers will be an overlapping directorate; season tickets will insure you the best of the Boston Season; and the Vincent and Varsity Clubs will engage in a merger. This little gesture of the H.A.A. secretariat calls up countless images, which...
...Washington the Biological Survey scotched the rumor for the present with a curt. "Absolutely nothing to it.'' But the Survey did admit that such a ban has been threatened for some years, might be discussed next summer. Why it may come was the subject of the More Game Birds report...