Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great was the disturbance in parts of Wall Street, great the joy of reformers, great the approval of many business men and bankers who felt it high time that a banker should frankly come forward, confess his sins and speak freely to restore public confidence in bankers. Not only has Chase a securities affiliate but it has investment bankers on its board (Frank Altschul of Lazard Freres; Frederic W. Allen of Lee, Higginson; Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read; Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone, etc., etc.). And it has one of the largest bank directorates in the country: 71 members...
...Church, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, who last week sermonized: "It is not necessary to call the business leaders to Washington to tell Congress how to end the Depression. Let the bankers and speculators and great corporation heads who are guilty get down not before the Senate but before God and confess their sins, and the air will be cleared...
...just how multi importance is to be attached a literary work as indication of the mental processes of a class. But even admitting the significance of the author of "A Farewell to Arms" in this respect, there is a further doubt. If the members of the present college generation confess themselves truly pictured by Hemingway, and, as Fadiman says, "as vitally maimed as the hero of The Sun Also Rise," they confess themselves beaten, not by the war, with which they had no direct contact, but by the depression. A great many dire things indeed may be predicted from such...
...Author, Chicago-born of New England stock, does not regard his province as a Coolidge Holy Land. His report of it is as factual as a newspaper, as much more interesting as the truth-between-the-lines. Says he: 'I will confess that I think of myself as being entirely New England and having an almost proprietary knowledge of it. You know the kind of thing I mean-a struggle with myself not to be a little bit Olympian when other people talk about it." His New Winton may be Kent, Conn, (where he went to school...
...Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House books look well on any shelves, partly because Editors Carl Van Doren...