Word: confession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said robust Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile workers of America, editor of The Textile Worker: "We have read so much recently, like millions of our countrymen, about this thing which is called prosperity, but I am willing to confess that outside of bankers, speculators, bootleggers and prize fighters, the thing to me is a myth, if not worse...
...What can I tell you that is not 'an old story', as I call it? There is little that I can add to my series of articles on 'The College Undergraduate as I Know Him' which you must have followed in 'I Confess...
...think that this was news ? Certainly if the documents are genuine it is news. I confess a fake dispatch in the Hearst papers is ordinarily not news, but if these are fakes it would seem that the persistence with which they have been brought forward makes them news...
...writer must confess to a certain prejudice in favor of this issue of the Lampoon due to the fact that careful perusal of its pages has failed to discover any reference to indifferent horsemanship. This violent departure from the iron tradition of American humor speaks volumes for the originality of the paper...
...read your new Fashion Department with, I will confess a critical but, I am sure, unmercenary eye. I wish now to express my approval qualified by one or two suggestions. In the first place, I am afraid that you do not always seize upon the most significant developments. But this defect will probably be corrected as you acquire familiarity with your subject. Then I have a more important suggestion: why do you not call your department PROGRESS, rather than FASHION? The latter is an unpleasant word carrying a hint of inconsequence, whim, frivolousness and lack of permanence. Should...