Word: confessing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...come to an end. Its crowning achievement was the fact that it actually worked for five continuous weeks. Those who asserted that the League was dead will have to admit a resurrection; those who saw in Argentina's haughty withdrawal the beginning of the end will have to confess their error. For five weeks delegates from forty-one states sat at Geneva and accomplished more than any other Congress in that time; they proved that cooperation was possible. No one can doubt any longer the reality of a working League of Nations...
...wander. Let us return to prose and confess at once that "My Uncle Henry," with his "thin, pale face and faded blue eyes," his immaculately bald head and his "quick, fussy gestures," plays fast and loose not only with his nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward...
Another life that stood out above the others was that of Lady Hamilton. We must confess that we were more or less ignorant of the part that this remarkable woman played in the life of England's Idol, Lord Nelson. Those who have been accustomed to regard Nelson as a pale but inspired saint will do well to read of the woman who made Nelson human--indeed she almost made him a second Antony, according to Mr. Ellis...