Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some ability. He also had something to do with pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond always believed in his youth meant milk obtained from cows who grew up in a pasture. Quite frankly the Vagabond is sorry about this, but in the interests of truth he is forced to admit his ignorance. He never for a moment held the specious hope that this sad trifle would tone up his column. At any rate he is going to hear about Pasteur...
...valuable body of water in the dramatists' atlas, the Seine. From this point on, Melo flags and falters. There is a tableau vivant around the dead woman's grave, followed by a long-winded scene at the violinist's home where the husband tries to get Mr. Rathbone to admit his philandering. Melo ends on an unclear and noncommittal note, possibly because plump, engaging Actress Best is killed off one act too soon...
...Perhaps this is the last time I will address you from this rostrum. [Laughter and applause.] I don't mean to insinuate that I regard it as a probability, but I must admit it is a possibility. The decision lies with none of us here. It is a decision that lies with an all-wise Providence. . . . With whatever Providence may decree, I am abundantly satisfied." [Applause...
...Author. Publishers Farrar & Rinehart stoutly withhold the real name of "A. Riposte," admit the author may reveal him (or her) self later. Whoever the author may be, he (or she) is obviously a good friend to Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole (pilloried in Cakes and Ale as "Alroy Kear"), obviously has been at pains to ferret out Maugham's career, obviously has a grudge against Maugham. Mindful of possible libel action. "Riposte" steers clear of any reference to Maugham's effeminate men friends (TIME, Oct. 6). Says Publisher John Farrar: "English publishers are cabling violently. ... I feel as though...
...jawed Alfonso XIII, whom even his enemies admit is the most astute politician in Spain, had no intention of selling his country to the U. S.; but no monarch in Europe is more amiable to U. S. citizens or has a livelier interest in their country. Whether he means it or not, he is constantly telling interviewers of his desire to visit the U. S. "If I don't visit America soon," said he to correspondents month ago, "I will be too old to be decorative." (He is 44.) The U. S. is interested in Alfonso...