Word: confessional
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Since self-righteousness so often accompanies good health, bad health must result from unrighteousness, or so have reasoned the generations of mankind. His first serious twinge sends the sick man to doctor or priest, for pills sometimes, for confession always. M.D.'s diagnose them outside in, priests diagnose them inside...
In commenting on the question Justice Allen says, "While I believe that capital punishment is a confession by society that it does not know what to do with the criminal, still, if 'either a man or a woman were properly convicted under our present laws, I should have no hesitation...
Papers made much of the fact that the first prisoner sentenced was a U.S. citizen, John Mulgrew. He went to the U. S. in 1923, became naturalized, returned to Ireland in 1930. Last week he was charged with being a member of the executive council of Communistic Saor Eire, a...
Publisher Delacorte had been having trouble with Publisher Bernarr Macfadden because four months ago he brought out My Story, an unsuccessful 10^ confession magazine patterned closely after Macfadden's successful 25^ True Story. Macfadden sued. When the fight was at its hot test Publisher Delacorte heard that Publisher Macfadden was...
A Collection of the originals of the Ireland forgeries, the well-known literary fraud of the eighteenth century, have recently been acquired by the Harvard College Library. These papers comprise the most famous and the most successful of Shakespearian forgeries, and include both letters which purported to be in his...