Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actor Eddie (Whoopee) Cantor confessed that when he had heard of Mr. Rosenwald's offer to protect his employes' accounts, he had wired for a job as office boy. The confession was in Caught Short, humorous story of his market troubles.
With the revelation of Miss Shotwell's identity her cheery confession became more understandable. She is a pianist. When she was 12, her father brought home his friend John Neal, to hear her play. So impressed was John Neal that upon his death in 1923 he left her $1,000...
Said the letter: "No theological issue is involved. No change is suggested in our confession of faith. . . . No one suggests that women shall be ministers or ruling elders whether they will or no. . . ."
As the day wore on Plum the Great recovered consciousness, called for his secretary, dictated what was afterward variously described as a "statement" and a "confession," then called in members of his family and tried to explain what steps they could take to save the Plum companies. At last he...
The biggest cinema trust in Europe is Universum Film Aktiengesellschaft, known as UFA. The biggest independent telegraph agency on the continent is Telegrapher Union Internationale, or T. U. Both Ufa and T. U. belong to potent, slightly sinister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, bristle-haired Junker. These and his famed Berlin newspapers...