Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years for. I have much the same feeling as that expressed by Mark Twain after receiving the Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Oxford University: "I feel as if I had received an official emancipation from ignorance and vice . . ." After reading TIME's gay précis, I confess that I felt no sense of departure, but rather the distinct conviction of arrival...
...pains me to confess to Miss Dora Plagemann, the handsomest teacher in San Francisco in my day, that for the order between Madison and Taft I must now take recourse to the World Almanac...
...also to be an aged, lecherous, hunchback. At a secret rendevous, he makes a pass at Jenny and she breaks a bottle over his head. The police pick up her husband for murder but Jenny decides to keep mum to both her husband and the police, thinking that her confession would destroy his love. Her failure to confess causes much agony, but the film has a neat solution...
...must confess that for some time I had been eagerly planning to chew up the Advocate into little bite-sized pieces. I find, however, that, upon reading the magazine, my ardor in pursuing this sadistic task has been rather dampened by the quality of some of the material under consideration. Two stories, one poem, and one picture in the current issue are, I think, admirable, a fact which makes the magazine frustrating to the professional curmudgeon but rewarding to the reader...
...have come to confess my weakness," Mather said, "and to state that I do not know for whom I will vote next November. I am prepared to go to the polls and hold my nose whatever the decision...