Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raymond Burr, 42, gives Erie Stanley Gardner s invincible legal Eye Perry Mason, the first TV face he has had since the reports of his cases started spraying from the presses (62 books in 26 years) Sad-eyed, spade-jowled Actor Burr fits Mason to the last wrinkle of his...
Great Confession. Volume II ends after Casanova has been imprisoned by the State Inquisitors (possibly for dabbling in black magic), has dramatically escaped and returned to Paris with a year's dammed-up energy.
Only 16 months ago, Britain was rocked by a Sunday Pictorial story that began with the words, "I, Donald Hume, do here by confess . . ." The lurid confession was that Hume had hacked to pieces a car dealer named Stanley Setty -a murder that in two separate trials the Crown had...
Some villagers had not seen a priest for years. At tiny Tesciguot, 40 men on mules trotted out to meet Father José Maria López, firing their pistols into the air and shouting, "Viva la Iglesia Católica! Viva Jesucristo!" In mass ceremonies, the padre married 240...
Some Lutherans, concerned that the trend to confession represents a risky rise in clerical power that is incompatible with Protestant principles, minimize it as a flash in the pan that flares in the fervor of a Kirchentag and subsides in the cooler air of everyday life. Yet a growing number...