Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from God." A habeas corpus proceeding was begun in the St. Louis Court of Appeals to recover the baby from Mrs. Muench. After long hearings the baby was restored to the Pennsylvania girl (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Newshawks continued to dig until they got socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman to confess what had long been suspected: that he had been plump Mrs. Muench's lover, had given her some $16,000 for her kidnapping defense when she persuaded him that the child was theirs...
...think Houdini could have done anything more phenomenal than the Van Sweringens did," scoffed Senator Wheeler. "They regained control of their vast empire without putting up a five-cent piece." Mr. Ball, unexpected inheritor of the Van Sweringen empire, had to confess time & again that he did not even know what kind of business many of the 286 Van Sweringen corporations were engaged in. He had put its management in the hands of Herbert Fitzpatrick, Van Sweringen attorney...
Into a Monticello, N. Y., police station walked honest Andrew Bitting, dusty and broke after hitchhiking 1,500 miles from Beatrice, Neb., to confess that he had fled Monticello this summer after bumping his old car harmlessly into a bus. Andrew Bitting could not pay his $10 fine, was jailed for five days...
Most people, if pressed, would agree that the world has changed over the past ages, and that it is still changing. Many would confess a belief that it changes for the better. But breathes there the man who has not, at some time or other, wished for a return of the ancient and honorable custom of vigorously expressing distaste at the fare offered audiences by some of our present-day stage entertainers...
...With the help of two accomplices Colonel Blood overpowered the Keeper of the Regalia, hid the crown under his cloak. One of his friends seized the sceptre while the other stuffed the orb into his breeches. Before they had gone far the thieves were captured. Blood refused to confess to anyone but King Charles II. Charles not only pardoned Blood but gave him back his estates which had been confiscated. Some historians think that Charles, who could always use a little ready cash, would have been pleased to see the Crown Jewels "disappear," provided that they should emerge later...