Word: confessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage seemed set for another Communist show trial. In the dock sat the accused, ready to plead guilty and to confess. On the courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...
...know that I do not join in the criticism that you are being subjected to, both by Harvard graduates and the Press, as to your responsibility because of your having hired Arthur Valpey as head coach, and on account of the dismal failure of the 1949 season. I confess that I agreed with your selection of Valpey last year, and believed that, given time, he would make his cycle offense work, and would build up a victorious team this year. Unfortunately, Valpey and his assistants not only did not live up to expectations, but produced the most inively...
...said the starling, 'you sing aswell as a nightingale. But I must confess to you that our hearts were troubled when, as you sang, we saw your sting. We enjoyed hearing you sing, but please, please, sing a little farther away from...
...Chapman had also proved his undying loyalty to the Fair Deal by covering nearly 26,000 miles in 1948 as advance man for the Truman campaign train. A teetotaler, Chapman at a White House gathering was once asked by Franklin Roosevelt, "Oscar, mix us a drink," and had to confess he did not know how. The President pretended to be vexed: "I can't have anyone in my little Cabinet who doesn't know how to mix a Martini." Earnest, literal-minded Oscar Chapman had to be assured later that the boss was just kidding...
...almost out of his wits, in fact. One contemporary Briton who unquestionably deserved the title was the late Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). Novelist Firbank was an esthete whose behavior was so "odd" that even such a case-hardened bird-watcher as Sir Osbert Sitwell is moved to confess in an introduction that Friend Firbank must have felt a bit "hedged off" in a private world that was noticeably "different from that of others...