Word: confesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death by her aged father Friday. Ethel C. McCoy, Radcliffe '22 and an employee in the corporate records department of the Baker Library, was found dead by police in her house in Belmont early in the morning. Her father, Hugh A. McCoy '87, had earlier called them to confess the murder...
...quite sure, in spite of the fact that it reminds him of a DeMille picture with crowds of "extras" in it, that some of the millions of people who view this painting are not genuinely moved by it, or that they do not even consider it, as I myself confess to doing, one of the seven wonders of the modern world...
Toulouse-Lautrec, a count's son gone bohemian, could confess to the dance-hall Chanteuse Yvette Guilbert: "Everywhere and always ugliness has its beautiful aspects; it is thrilling to discover them where nobody else has noticed them." But from his own ugliness. Toulouse-Lautrec turned away, preferring to caricature it outlandishly to make his friends laugh harder. He could not resist telling Vincent van Gogh, who struck most men on sight as physically unattractive, where to get his rotting teeth fixed. But his pastel portrait of Van Gogh shows a warmer, more searching glance. In reply, Van Gogh humbly...
...hole in the dike. The doctor enlarges it, brings the churchman at last to confess crimes he has never committed in order to punish himself for the sins he is truly guilty of. Too late the exhausted cardinal realizes his mistake: a man may not judge himself any more than he may judge another. Defaced, the living monument is set free, "to walk the world like Cain." He goes to meet his fate, far worse than death to his human pride, with a simple courage that leaves the interrogator shaken. "It means," the doctor says wonderingly, "you've defeated...
...giving themselves a resounding vote of confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord on their knees and publicly confess their sins. They accepted the evangelist's big, red-blooded handshake and sometimes they signed a vague little pledge card...