Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere bristling with Pennsylvania politics, the Inquirer showed up at the Washington courthouse with a scrappy lawyer named Ralph B. Evans. Plaintiff Margiotti was flanked by the pick of the State's prosecutors. Lawyer Evans put the Attorney General on the stand, got him to admit that he had given advice in some of the tax cases the Inquirer had originally mentioned. When the Attorney General persisted in elaborate asides to the jury, Lawyer Evans infuriated him by leaning back, hooking his thumbs in his vest and observing: "I have the bulge on you, Mr. Margiotti. I can talk...
...expert British civil servants: two from the Foreign Office and one each from the Admiralty, Air Ministry, War and Dominions Offices. These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating...
...Daying Guest's salary but $1,200 a week toll charges so that he could broadcast from his Chicago outlet. "My parents always told me it was impossible to get something for nothing," he wrote his son, a Free Press reporter. "It's hard for me to admit they were wrong." After Christmas Poet Guest returned to Detroit to end 'this senseless waste of money." Free Press workers make a big thing of Eddie Guest's camaraderie and intimacy with the staff. He still has a desk in the office and, according to office gossip, will...
GAUDY NIGHT-Dorothy L. Sayers- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Though murder stories form the chief mental diet of many a respectable citizen, even the most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales...
...challenges the attention of the whole nation, and particularly those who look after other people's money. If the guardians of Stanford's funds are worried by the bogey of inflation, Harvard's trustees should sit up and take notice. For all save the government's hirelings will now admit that serious inflation looms larger than at any time since the administration took the helm...