Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impostor, in addition to worming an apology for the treatment accorded to Leila, also managed to get Hobbs to admit that most Lampoon stunts in the past 10 years have been "senseless" and not worth while. Specifically condemned was the stealing of the Sacred Cod from the State House...
...labor leader, steelmen regard him publicly with the suspicion that they reserve for labor leaders. But privately they respect him. Said one steel executive: "He handles his own crowd better than most steel company presidents handle theirs." They know him as a hard bargainer, but they admit that he is square...
Harvard '12 engaged in Civil War Monday night when Samuel H. Cross, Professor of Slavic, labelled his classmate Joseph P. Kennedy, retiring Ambassador to Britain, as "disingenuous." Justification for the label was that "if we admit, as Mr. Kennedy does, that a British victory is in our interest, the only logical conclusion is that we should assure it if necessary by force of arms...
...still better fed than Germans, Britons none the less felt last week a sharp, specific pinch. They had been expecting the meat situation to ease somewhat for Minister of Food Lord Woolton declared fortnight ago: "The meat shortage is only temporary." Instead last week Lord Woolton was obliged to admit: "For the first time in 17 months of war we failed last week to meet the meat ration...
...fine Widener for $10,000, an early Atwater Kent for $7,940, and so on. Mr. Davis likewise takes pleasure in stories in which his publicity men (one of them is his brother Uriel) describe his Manhattan penthouse, his suave butler. Actually Meyer Davis is the first to admit that his Manhattan apartment is modest. The chief Davis establishment is in Philadelphia...