Word: confessional
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In Palisade, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, members of a nondenominational Union Church last week dismissed their spectacular pastor, Rev. Vincent Godfrey Burns, 42, ostensibly for having called them "cutthroats, skunks, snobs, greedy aristocrats." Pastor Burns has an equally spectacular brother, Robert Elliott Burns, who fled from a Georgia...
A solemn group of students stood last fortnight in the office of President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A freshman had told an upperclassman and the upperclassman had told them and they were there to tell President Graham that the University's...
Leaving the scholastic standard alone, the ideal for the future must be to get at the large, average group, somehow or other to make them interested and hard-working in their fields. For this all that is suggested in Dean Hanford's report comes from Professor Munn's special committee...
With help only from the few lepers who were not ready for the grave, he built cottages, an aqueduct, schools, a church, a dispensary. A husky peasant, the missionary dressed the rotting sores of his wards. Mildly he wrote a brother at home that he felt "some repugnance" in hearing...
Exclusive in only the most metaphorical sense, the story also concerns itself with the efforts of a star reporter (Stuart Erwin) to track down the racketeers; the professional vagaries of a tippling public prosecutor (Franchot Tone), and his shilly-shallying with two young ladies (Madge Evans, Louise Henry); the vocational...