Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bathroom humor is very old. As to its age, there are two main hypotheses, that it is as old as the hills, and that it is as old as a trouser-clad culture. Advocates of the former theory might admit when pressed that if not as old as the hills it is as least as old as hills with bushes on them. Advocates of the latter theory would claim, if given half a chance, that no such thing existed in, say, Polynesia before the arrival of Captain Cook. But they probably would not have read "Coming of Age in Samoa...
...Fellows, scholarly Eton Headmaster Claude Aurelius ('The Emperor") Elliott, and 1,100 top-hatted Etonians. Up to the outer doors of School Yard walked Lord Hugh with stately, processional steps. His three knocks on the great oak door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School Yard to Upper Chapel he produced his royal warrant to prove he was no impostor, listened to addresses in Latin by Headmaster Elliott and the captain...
Thank you for your attention in this matter. It is only because we wish Harvard to defend herself against, or admit the justice of, a growing, though unrecognized, accusation of hypocrisy that we ask this; we do not seek to make unnecessary trouble or embarrassment. E. F. Davis '38, T. V. Marsters...
...mind, then deny, card by card, that he had selected any of them when they were reshown him. Watching the needle, Father Summers flipped the five cards, heard the newshawk's answers, then declared: "Your card was the three of diamonds." The newshawk was compelled to admit...
...ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($2). Typical Wells item, describing the philosophical work of a future thinker, an erudite and daring U. S. industrialist whose ideas on the obstacles to human progress are more familiar than Author Wells seems willing to admit...