Word: confession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King-Emperor: Some very comical jokes used to be made about your excellent product, Mr. Ford. I confess to have chuckled at some of them but I cannot recall having ridden in one of your cars...
...frank to confess that my interest in this campaign is personal far more than partisan. If I did not believe in the ability of Mr. Hoover to deal with the farm problem, if I did not believe he would in good faith uphold and enforce the Constitution, I can pledge you that I would not be undergoing the unspeakable hardships of a long campaign...
...over here expecting to find Harvard a hotbed of collegiatism; my disillusionment was most welcome," John Maud, Davidson Scholar from Oxford declared in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night. "Coming over on the boat I had read several novels of College life in America, and I must confess that I proceeded to Harvard with the greatest trepedation. Oxford is tremendously amused at the so called 'College Spirit...
...Perfect Crime. "The greatest detective in the world" (Clive Brook) retires because criminals are so stupid. He will show them how; he commits "the perfect crime," a murder without a single clew. But finally, he is forced to confess in order to save the life of an innocent man. It is a thoroughly insipid film. To critical audiences, the crime was by no means perfect. The acting of Clive Brook and Irene Rich was exasperating. The "talkie" parts were atrocious, partly faked...
...finally extinguished there were, of course, no stories printed about Princess Eudoxia. Her flair for doing good and avoiding praise amounts to genius. She will never be a popular figure, except among grateful Bulgarians, who know of her by word of mouth. Her meticulously written Memoirs are the confessions of a very earnest soul which has nothing to confess: "Upon rising in the morning it is my custom to go at once to my brother and help him with his fairly bulky correspondence. . . . We partake of ... breakfast and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play...