Word: confesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have been impossible to raise the money for Broadway Temple without the help of the newspapers, and I have rarely been mistreated or misquoted by them. I confess therefore that I was chagrined to read the paragraph in your issue in which you gave accredited place to some reporter's description of the band concert which we gave in the street following the Ground Breaking for the Broadway Temple. The two programs were in no way related. After treating the whole program as a joke, you completed the article by saying...
...steal your things, madam, and will confess to you why. When entering here I swear to you I did not know whose house it was. Passing by chance, I thought it looked like a likely place to contain nice things. You will be able to see I am a man of good taste. While continuing my inventory, I happened to come across pictures of the woman whom I admire most in the whole world, both in the theatre and on the screen. Imagine my surprise. I am sincerely sorry to have disarranged the charming interior and make every apology...
Despite this indictment I confess myself an Oxford tutor, and as such I feel compelled to criticise a little this model of a historical essay, and then to use it, as all tutors should, for the basis of my own suggestions...
...Confess who is she, Percy Bysshe...
Gentlemen: I have been a subscriber to TIME for a year. I thoroughly enjoy parts of it, but I confess I am disappointed in the general tenor of the magazine, its flippancy and its often vain attempts at cleverness...