Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from her husband. The prize-fighter discovers the two together just after they have been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder. He returns in time to confess. How and why the prize-fighter escapes the electric chair, cinema audiences will understand only if they have seen the very beginning of Jealousy and waited patiently to the very last. Audiences who miss the whole thing will not be losers...
...struggle for superiority in arms is a symptom of more fundamental animosities. It is true, as the Senator laments, that the impending renunciation of treaty restrictions gives the lie to the professions of pacifism which our diplomats bandy about, but those paper limitations, so readily abandoned, are rather a confession of intent to give battle than a statement of Christian generosity. The signatories, like mutually mistrustful urchins, concede one another a theoretically equal start, but tacitly confess the possibility of hostilities...
...Says he: "You will discover a great deal of evasion and refusal in my story. . . . There is a sort of journalistic legend that I am a person of boundless enthusiasm and energy. Nothing could be further from the reality. For all my desire to be interested I have to confess that for most things and people I don't care a damn. Writing numbers of books and articles is evidence not of energy but of sedentary habits." He speaks gratefully of "the pleasures, the very real pleasures, of vanity." He regards himself in the same breath as normal...
...Because of events with which we are all familiar, there exists today, I regret to confess, evidence of misunderstanding between many of our country's bankers and those whose duty and responsibility it is to administer the affairs of the country...
...second team of the Perfidious Parkers, numbering nearly one hundred, has been cordially invited to meet the T-and-T boys for a friendly match. With innate courtesy, the jayvees confess their reluctance to refuse the beautifully engraved and tastefully colored invitation cards which have been distributed to them...