Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very good jibes and she is not essential to their success. In the last act, when the scene demands emotional pliancy, you realize that while she has a definite, tart personality, she is not an actress. Robert Williams, as the boy who had once refused her affection, returns to confess his weak, desperate love, to fall sobbing on his knees before her. His performance in this difficult bit is splendidly impetuous and poignant?Hope Williams remains wooden...
Bewildered editors were faced with the possibility of having to print any querulous office-seeker's grievance in red-faced, "Second-Coming" type across their front pages. Said Editor Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I will confess that . . . I was entirely scooped." Lamented Editor Grove Patterson of the Toledo Blade: "It seems incredible...
...worth the trouble when they appear. Said he: "I once asked an old fellow in a military cloak, watching his line in a sluggish stream in Alsace, 'What kind of a fish are you expecting to catch?' 'All kinds,' was his gruff but very proper answer....I confess that I do not care to hear a publisher shouting from his crow's nest 'There she blows!' when I have reason to think that his whale is only a porpoise. But meanwhile there are few pleasanter sights than porpoises rolling in the sunshine, and, any morning, now, we may really catch...
...trouble when they appear. Said he: "I once asked an old fellow in a military cloak, watching his line in a sluggish stream in Alsace, 'What kind of a fish are you expecting to catch?' 'All kinds,' was his gruff but very proper answer. ... I confess that I do not care to hear a publisher shouting from his crow's nest "There she blows!' when I have reason to think that his whale is only a porpoise. But meanwhile there are few pleasanter sights than porpoises rolling in the sunshine, and, any morning...