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Word: confess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football players should not be paid their due salary, and insists that if the word amateurism is to mean anything, then the amateur teams must play in their own league, Professional teams, or those who claim they are amateurs but are really pro or semi-pro, should openly confess that they hire players. Games could then he played in a professional league. "For God's sake, a little logic." is the parting pies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John R. Tunis, in Second Publicity Bid in Six Months, Calls Harvard's Football Team "Semi-Pro" in Current Mercury | 10/24/1936 | See Source »

...vectors ever returning together again. Philip Merivale and Gladys Cooper who play Mr. and Mrs. Hilton start the morning with a kiss. During the day each has his brief lapee of fidelity, though never of real love. But at the end of the day they confess all to each other, and the final curtain drops as they are affectionately holding hands between their twin beds. This section of the plot is the only complete cycle in the play. Catherine Hilton, the elder daughter, is last seen weeping from the bruises to her unreflected love, while Martin Hilton ends us definitely...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...must confess I'm now eighty-three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Only the high regard which I have for the Veritas emblazoned on the Harvard seal-a word which seems to have escaped Mr. Tunis's attention, or possibly exceeded his ability in translation-forces me to step into the white light of publicity, and confess that I am the wreck that penned those pitiful words that headline your column on Education (TIME, Sept. 14), "After 25 years I am an utter failure, morally, mentally, and financially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...away from her brothers, who were all priests, and became his mistress. But her father refused to let her marry one of the shiftless Crones. When she became pregnant she almost went crazy while Corney made plans that came to nothing. At desolate, run-down Youghal Corney decided to confess to her father. Thereupon she tried to drown herself, brought on a miscarriage that killed her. Corney became one of the eccentric characters of Cork, grew old enough to realize that if he could live his life over he would do it all again, except for the week when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cork's Carney | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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