Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before he can decide whether to confess the debts or try to make some money by getting frantically to work upon his intended "great British novel," Henry becomes ill, grows touchingly dependent upon Tony and affectionate with him. Tony finds himself confessing, and at Henry's offer to settle the debts grows so genuinely remorseful that he determines to go back to Cambridge in the proper spirit and get all there is to be had from his last years there. But Henry grows rapidly worse, and at length when he dies, Tony has acquired some characteristics of permanent value?chief...
...rumor originated. . . I was brought before the most remarkable woman in Russia, Simanova, known as 'The Merciless,' and the real chief of the Foreign Department. She is less than 30 years of age, beautiful, and a blonde with blue eyes. After questioning me she demanded that I confess that I was a spy. I refused and she turned to one of her assistants and said: 'He must be shot.' . . . Again I was taken before Simanova and after expressing regret that she could not have me shot just then, sent me to the Butirik prison...
...business to repair radios, so I know something about them. Yet I must confess that when I tuned into your concert the other night, I thought my set was broken", wrote a radio fan to the lampoon staff who broadcasted a humorous concert from Station WNAC on Friday evening...
...have received the encomiums of the speakers with a certain sense that I have not fully understood. One of them said that I had an unsual amount of courage. That has never entered my mind. I confess to recognizing another quality to which President Lowell referred--a readiness for combat. I look back upon my life as a boy sometimes engaged in those rough and tumble fights which we used to have on Boston Common, and I recognized there at a tender age that I did display considerable enjoyment in fighting...
...confess I receive with great delight what the President of the University said about the spreading influence of Harvard in the present day. I recognize that I have been unusually strong and had unusually good health, and that a great deal of the influence I have exerted,--what has been described as my personality, is derived from those two facts,--strength and health. And with those two things, strength and health, went a great joy in work, just in work. I need not stop to consider why I had joy in work. I never looked in enough to think...