Word: confessedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...space to say nothing than the style of any other one of the similarly accomplished Harvard correspondents. On some mornings when the official spokesman of the H.A.A. has been especially vague and Hapgood's football story has been exceptionally long. Dick has been known to break down and tearfully confess that, long as the story was, it had been cut mercilessly by the Herald copy editors...
...discover that two weeks ago a considerable amount of his correspondence had been stolen. The fact that money and jewelry had not been touched argued a political theft, and it was assumed in diplomatic circles that the Rumanian Consulate knew more about the stealing than it was willing to confess...
...This has led me to direct my personal attention to this subject, in order to ascertain the exact nature of these articles. As a result of this survey I confess that I am deeply mortified that this journal, which is intended to be constructive and not destructive has been made the medium for resurrection of exploded fictions, for giving currency to the so-called protocols of the 'Wise Men of Zion,' which have been demonstrated, as I learn, to be gross forgeries, and for contending that the Jews have been engaged in a conspiracy to control the capital...
...Those who know me can bear witness that it is not in my nature to inflict insult upon and to occasion pain to anybody and that it has been my effort to free myself from prejudice. Because of that I frankly confess that I have been greatly shocked as a result of my study and examination of the files of the Dearborn Independent and the pamphlets entitled 'The International...
...While it is better late than never to confess having done an injury, it is impossible to overlook the fact that in Mr. Ford's case it it decidedly late."?New York Times...