Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dickinson's statement that in his consulting work he has found a great increase in the number of engaged couples who confess pre-nuptial relations, should be evaluated in the light of the fact that in recent years he has become a world-renowned leader of medical research concerning birth control. Dr. Dearborn is a psychologist who helps people with their mental troubles...
...only -- they simply stand there. Of the artists who disrobed at intervals in the program, perhaps the most alluring was Miss Joan Dare, but other members of the audience loudly held that Miss Nora (Hotcha) Ford outstripped them all. As for their vocal efforts at popular songs, one must confess that while those heard were sweet, those unheard were sweeter...
...possibilities for the smart faculty member with a little business sense were innumerable. Although no professors are to be found who will confess to taking advantage of this bounty, it is assumed that their wives were quick to see the opportunities which lay in such a transaction. With a little judicious diluting of the consomme, a stretching of the buttered parsnips, and a stringing out of the beans a supper for two could be made into an attractive if limited supper for four. Net profit, $1.00. Again, if still larger game were sought, a simple, yet filling picnic of peanut...
...Somoza. He returned and told Sandino that he was to be shot in accordance with superior orders. Sandino, Estrada and Umanzor [his two favorite generals] were then taken to a place where a grave had been dug some days before. They were tortured in an effort to make them confess that they were planning a revolution and, when they naturally refused to confess a thing of which they were not guilty, they were murdered by a volley of machine gun bullets. . . . Shortly afterward, another group of guardsmen attacked the home of Sofonias Salvatierra, Minister of Agriculture, and killed Socrates Sandino...
...sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack Oakie and Spencer Tracy say a lot of funny things...