Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond's favorite literary characters is Dr. Johnson, and it grieves him to confess that he is forced to admit a flaw in his greatness. For Boswell repots him to have maintained that the weather had no effect whatsoever upon the human disposition and to have scorned the weakness of his biographer who admitted to depression during long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those...
...must know ourselves! We must confess that we are terribly poor and that our people are suffering miseries which justly horrify the civilized peoples. We must confess that our political life is corrupt to the core, and that most of our homes are nests of crime, of injustice, oppression, lynching and suicide...
...proverbial amateur detective proves his excellence in the face of five ship's passengers who confess to the murder, and several others who are under suspicion, in Murder at Sea (Minton, Balch...
...caresses, and she replied from her drowsiness with little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies up. . . ." The horror of his unconfessed murder haunted him, but he dared not confess to priest or pauper, lest further disgrace crush delicate Ingunn. She chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more...
What goal will such a grouping of students serve to approach? Any intelligently directed educational institution will, I believe, confess as its fundamental aim the encouragement of intellectual activity and the increase of intellectual power among its students. Its social structure should be planned or altered with this underlying intellectual purpose in mind. The House plan, as it is at present conceived, obviously will tend to throw students into contact with all types of their associates. It may even succeed in giving them a certain social breadth which they would not obtain under any other system; though here one well...