Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request for federal loans to city governments opens up an even larger problem. The self-sufficiency of local governments is one of the most valuable of American traditions. To accept extraordinary assistance from the federal government, without the most pressing need, would be to confess that municipal democratic government is incompetent. The charge made by Lord Bryce to that effect years ago, and often repeated, would be proved by the cities themselves...
...night, and it further emphasized the fact that such shows cannot longer interest a leg-weary world." Twenty years ago and the public was leg weary. I am just wondering if the public hasn't finally become hip, rib, back and altogether sex weary by this time. I confess I am against the ropes. JASPER C. HUTTO Charlotte...
...last century an itinerant house painter named John St. Helen appeared in the Southwest. When drunk, he would confess that he was Booth, that U. S. troopers had got the wrong man in Virginia, that he had escaped to Mexico. When sober, he would deny the whole yarn. There was just enough doubt about the identification of Booth's body to make St. Helen's story sound plausible. In 1903 at Enid, Okla., he committed suicide with arsenic. Finis Bates who later became Attorney General of Tennessee, believed his story, had his body embalmed, exhibited the mummy...
...Should I meet the man I chose for my husband, I would have to tell him and he would shrink from me. Nor could I conceive children, who one day might ask me whether rumors were true that I slew my mother. The only way for me is to confess publicly and regain my peace of mind and soul...
...Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Romances, Modern Screen, War Stories, War Birds, War Aces, Western Romances, All Western Stories, Sweetheart Stories, Cupid's Diary, I Confess, Ballyhoo, Hullabaloo...