Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition that San Franciscans crowed over most-and with good reason -was the Old Masters show. California is far from overstocked with masterpieces of the great artistic periods, and California artists are the first to admit the lack of traditional guidelines which that entails. Accordingly, it was good news for them as well as for everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from...
Arriving in Manhattan for his third U. S. exhibition, Surrealist Salvador Dali refused to admit that he understands his own paintings: "It is enough to do the painting, much less trying to understand...
...conclusions, offered a highly original explanation for smokers' fatigue. Despite the "bounding vitality and missionary fervor" of the "heroes" who stop smoking, said the editorial, it is doubtful that the drug nicotine alone produces fatigue. There is a "feeling to which an extraordinary number of people admit, that they smoke too much-that cigarets are a waste of money and so forth. . . . In sensitive men and women this mental conflict . . . may do much to take the edge off that zest for living which is supposedly normal." Prime cause of smokers' fatigue, concluded the Lancet, is not nicotine...
Last week, with Hungary under martial law and the Premier's racial bills facing probable defeat, Dr. Imredy was forced to admit that he had made an embarrassing and belated discovery. A deeper search into genealogical records had uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic...
Nothing in her book quite lives up to her wide-eyed statement on p. 14 that "our family ties were abnormally close" - unless it is her name for the family's official residence in Berlin - "The Chancery." Before she would admit that she was really in chancery, Germany had other, very different holds on her. When she landed there in 1933, she was practically a predigested Nazi. She liked everything she saw, discounted rumors of things unseen...