Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vanished Hopes; Bourgeois Spoils. One by one the other prisoners rose to confess. Planner Victor Larichev, until his arrest a member of the State Planning Commission, testified that he was the "treasurer" of the conspirators (who called themselves "The Counter-Revolutionary Party"), had handled some $2,300,000 in foreign contributions. Any premature conclusion that counterrevolution pays well was nipped by Prisoner Professor Alexander S. Fedotov: "As I sat in prison and thought of my vanished hopes, I told myself that had our plans succeeded it would have been foreign imperialists and a handful of rich emigres who would have...
...confess that I cannot understand the type of American whose stomach is strong enough to permit him to regard anything Russian with a tolerant spirit. The Soviet has crucified American idealism . . . everything America stands...
...President's telegram was answered, the serious voice of Virginia's Senator Carter Glass proclaimed: "No group of Democrats, however distinguished or discerning, should feel obliged to pledge their party associates in Congress not severely to disturb the most infamous tariff act ever enacted by a legislative body. ... I confess to some astonishment that anybody should feel impelled to apologize for an apparent Democratic victory. . . ." Many another voice, particularly from the South, echoed Senator Glass. By the week's end, what looked like a real revolt against the seven leaders (Messrs. Smith. Davis, Cox, Robinson, Garner, Raskob, Shouse) was under...
...apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said he was indigent, it was his first "job," pleaded for mercy. After two hours Mr. Prentiss, well satisfied with his "experiment," turned Faye over to police who made him confess to 16 midtown burglaries. Said Prentiss: "It was the most interesting experience I have ever had. He told me he was a painter, but when I examined his hands I knew that wasn't true. Of course, I never had any idea of letting...
From August he learned many useful facts, many ornamental dodges. August had been everywhere, done everything and everybody; but when he was in a tight place was apt to confess himself a miserable and not quite bright sinner. From failure and success he made equally quick recoveries. Edevart and he roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where...