Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he didn't believe that J. J. could be explained, and the last that was seen of the pair, they were removing breakables from the vicinity, and singing, "Just Before the Battle, Mother." Further adventures of J. J. M. M. W. G. D. may be followed in "I Confess," or try your own broker...
There are few sounds as ominously suggestive of the passing of time as the regular tramp of feet. Guilty men hear in it the approaching minions of the law and in their terror rush to confess. The imaginative are reminded of tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative...
...hardly want to begin to put on dog* at my age." Governor Dillon compromised to the extent of putting on semi-"dog." A full dress suit, as Emily Post would confess in higher language, is considered full...
...Habima Players of Moscow offer the same play in Hebrew. Their production is notable for its frank theatricality. Not the slightest regard is paid to ordinary, familiar realities. The players confess themselves actors of parts, paint their faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before impressionistic scenery. As artists detached from the world on the other side of the footlights, they breathe unmistakable intensity into their roles. Anna Rovina, who plays Leah, the body haunted by the restless spirit of her dead lover, is heralded as one of the world's greatest actresses. In gesture...
...ancient Vatican at Rome, but the browbeating Vatican which the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church has erected just across from the United States Senate Office Building.... As a Democrat I am not only disgusted with Prohibition, but I have, I confess, grown restive under the long exclusion of the Democratic party from power...