Word: confession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alma Petty Gatlin went to the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, in Reidsville, N. C., to confess her sins. She told him that she had killed her father and was sorry. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue accepted her confession and told the police. Mrs. Petty was tried for murdering her father; despite Thomas Pardue's testimony, which was admitted, the jury found Mrs. Petty not guilty. That was two weeks ago (TIME, March...
...there were one redeeming feature, if would be pleasant enough to say that here is a moderately entertaining, musical play. But in honesty one must confess that even this one consolation is absent. The costumes are colorful, but that in itself goes but a short way; the music is innocuous, and only one tune, "Play Gypsics", at all demands attention. It has been and gone in popular fancy having had its hey-day a year...
...course not. . . . No, this miner you quote may not have been actuated by the highest principles, but in the light of the four gospels, I confess, he's not so far wrong...
...material gathered to illustrate this thesis is of no mean quality. On the title page the editors confess their mission. The illustrations and text bear out the promise. One who has passed through the experience of an examination in the New Lecture Hall cannot fail to get a quiver or two out of the cartoon The Retreat from Moscow. To most readers of the Lampoon this will be the appeal to strike him most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate...
Despite all this, however, there is no denying that there are many who, reason or no reason, do not like the idea of a larger Stadium. Even those who must confess that the claims of the Athletic Association are just, somehow wish that it might be otherwise. It is to this class that the CRIMSON belongs. Figures, charts, statistics, the practical is undoubtedly on the side of those desiring an enlarged Stadium. Sentiment, tradition, perhaps even a sort of foolish idealism seems no less certainly on the side of those opposing the proposed change...