Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other of their own accord, make it necessary for Elizabeth to break the ice between them...
...Areo twice, bashed in his head with an ax, threw him into Carquinez Strait at the top of San Francisco Bay. Anacleto then confided the murder to two friends, who promptly informed the police. However, it proved to be one thing to arrest Anacleto and another to make him confess. For two weeks the moody mozo denied everything...
Lying on his cot in the white glare, Anacleto was suddenly terrified to hear, softly, susurringly, as if from the Beyond, the voice of his dead friend. "Tit me mataste, Anacleto," came the spectral murmur. "You killed me. I am Areo's ghost. You had better confess, Anacleto. You killed me. . . ." Frenzied, bewildered, Anacleto stood it two days, two nights. Then he leaped up screaming: "I'm guilty! I'm guilty! I'm guilty!" A police stenographer rushed in and got a full confession...
...quack doctors specializing in venereal disease. His strategy was to send out, as a prospective "patient," a reporter who had a clean bill of health from a reputable physician. In the reporter's pocket would be a savings bankbook showing a modest balance. The "patient" would tearfully confess to the quack that he was about to be married but had reason to suspect that he had been exposed to gonorrhea. With his clothes left in an anteroom where the doctor's assistant could easily find and examine the bankbook, the reporter underwent an examination. In every case...
...confess," said Sister Neophyta, "that I sent money abroad...