Word: confession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contend that the accused is guilty of homicide, attempted insurrection, and carrying a rifle," boomed the Attorney General. "The homicide must be considered as committed, because it was prevented by forces [policemen] entirely beyond the control of Zaniboni, whom you have heard confess, nay, boast [TIME, April 25] that he would have killed Premier Mussolini if not apprehended. In these circumstances, the State asks the maximum penalty for the accused and his accomplice, General Luigi Capello...
...grease comes to the top. . . . When we consider the interval separating Pasteur from the monkey, it seems to me the Negro has traveled a long distance in his short contact with Western civilization. Next year I am going to Africa to study the ancestors of these Western Negroes. ... I confess I have been rather shocked at some things I have seen in your theatres and cinemas. In An American Tragedy and even in What Price Glory there is a literal, physical portrayal of desire which would not for a moment be tolerated in Paris. It is curious in a country...
...their old college days, and who occasionally reach deep into their pockets for the University, or the undergraduates, the graduate students, and the officers, who live its daily life. We do not wish to be petty and nagging, by calling undue attention to what cannot be remedied; but we confess that we are not yet sceptical enought to believe that the sentiment of a group whose interest is so very demonstrable should be quite ignored. Yours truly, Edward Renouf, President, Harvard Liberal Club...
...that he has confessed so much, the Vagabond may confess something more. He is not going to the lecture this morning because he particularly wants to have described to him the finger which Palmerston had in the Near Eastern pie; he is going to hear Professor Webster. This gentleman is an exchange professor from the University of Liverpool with a passion for a fresh air and a subtle English humor which would enliven any subject that needed resuscitation and make supremely interesting one that is already alive...
...form of Roman Catholic confession is this : The penitent, kneeling at the confessor's feet, says : "Pray, Father, bless me, for I have sinned." The priest says : "The Lord be in thy heart and on thy lips, that thou mayest truly and humbly confess thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Penitent: "I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, [tells of sins committed since last confession]. . . . For these and all my other sins which I can not now remember I am heartily sorry ; I purpose amendment...