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...wrung his hands. "I am a hare's foot-a scared rabbit-but I am a good German. I am no spy! When I was going from Munich for a little holiday in Switzerland an official called me 'You coward!' and then he said. 'Confess-or we will make you confess...
...stories was translated. Author Neagoe writes in English, which he studied to good purpose in. his years in the U. S. Author Neagoe's sturdy language fits his Rumanian senses well but seems awkwardly foreign when he writes of the U. S. One story ("Gavrila's Confession") is as good as anything in the Decameron, has the same flavor of good-natured tolerance: a peasant wife, caught misbehaving by her husband, persuades him he is possessed by an evil imagination, makes him go to the priest to confess the whole thing...
...University were to make clear on what grounds it opposed a social center for the commuters and there are some, its position would be tenable. If it believed in the other solution, a new abode for the commuters, it might confess this opinion frankly. It would then be possible to debate the problems inherent in the acquirement of a building, the maintenance charges, and meal arrangements...
...TIME, May 19, 1930). At that time a French businessman and collector named Michaux discovered that a Millet painting for which he had paid 150,000 francs was a forgery. Police called at the shop of Grandson Millet from whom the picture had been bought, found him ready to confess...
...before famed Judge Vassily Ulrich, "Stalin's Executioner," stood Comrade Feodor Medved, Chief of the Gay-pay-op in Leningrad where Kirov was assassinated. With Comrade Medved were arraigned eleven other high Gay-pay-oo chiefs. In Russia today the accused always confess when their case is of importance to the State. Last week's trial was no exception. According to the State's press handout, the Gay-pay-oo chiefs confessed that the Gay-pay-oo knew Stalin's friend Kirov was threatened with assassination, did nothing to prevent...