Word: confessional
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The penalty for the first offense against temperance was trivial compared with that for wearing gold braid. "If any Scholar shall be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fined one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a public confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offense...
Outside the cozy court, the citizens of Moscow were being warmed up by the Soviet press which invariably, before and during every big Red trial, assumes that all the accused are guilty, blackens their characters with its highest-powered adjectives, and ordinarily writes of the more distinguished prisoners as if...
There were not placed on the green tables last week any pieces of paper stated to be from the hand of Trotsky. There were just charges and confessions in matching pairs. Confessions. Radek last week confessed that he helped assassinate in Leningrad two years ago Stalin's famed "Dear...
Lyons turned out in the January American Mercury a dispassionate, detailed six-point analysis of how it happens that in the Soviet Union there is so much abject confessing of whatever it would do the Dictator good to have confessed. Mr. Lyons, veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum...
Aside from the quiet time, the distinguishing characteristics of the Buchmanite movement consist of a use of confession, psychologically a perfectly satisfactory method of relieving the mind (and one that the Catholic Church has been availing itself of for some time), their admitted social discrimination, and an insistence on the...