Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarence Darrow variety, is importuned to cheat the gallows, free Mr. Muir. Lawyer Trask has not been on the case half an hour before he divines that Mr. Muir is shielding a lady. It takes the rest of the evening to find the lady and make her confess. Because of her awesome social position and because her mother has persuaded her that the fine thing to do is to let her lover sacrifice himself, the confession does not materialize until Lawyer Trask has confronted the lady (Phoebe Foster) with a courtesan hired to do the confessing by proxy...
...wish to be sincere with ourselves we must confess as sons of the Mexican Revolution that Agrarianism, as we have understood it and practiced it hitherto, has been a failure...
...defense Eugenio Bassani pleaded: "I confess that I used the vulgar words these women have repeated in court, but I spoke in jest. By the Blessed Name of our Holy Mother, I swear that I spoke in jest...
...harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that he is at the bottom of a seething Moro rebellion, he will be promoted. Unfortunately his wife and the Spaniard, who proves to be innocent, fall in love and arrange to run away, leaving the Philippines and its unsolved social problems entirely in the hands of the Major...
Such expression by college students at large might mean several things. The results would depend on the fairness of those conducting the poll. Would they be partial to the issue? What could the results of such a poll accomplish? We frankly confess we don't know...