Search Details

Word: confesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How, for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Ball, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of a Spanish commissioner in the common goal, with...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

When people began telephoning its Manhattan office, America's staff was forced to confess that the "Harmonians" do not exist. "The Pilgrim" invented them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: America's Nunnery | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

Biographers, plying their little hatchets, would be the first to confess that this affectionate title possessed no small degree of accuracy. How for example, is one to explain succinctly the character of a man who would in one moment defy a whole city, as Jackson did when he placed New Orleans under martial law, and who would in the next submit meekly to the sentence of Judge Dominick Hall, one of the major victims of that defiance? How is one to harmonize the picture of the man who caused the imprisonment of the Spanish commissioner in the common goal with...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 9/1/1933 | See Source »

...come out for the building of tariff walls around the Empire (TIME, July 14, 1930), which have since been built. Five weeks before President Roosevelt's inauguration Mr. McKenna asked: "Is it possible to raise our internal price level? Particularly can we do so by monetary management? ... I confess the thought of inflation, so long as it is controlled inflation, does not alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Benefit of Crisis | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...confess to great surprise that your usually so efficient staff should have made such serious errors in references made on p. 28 of your issue of July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

Previous | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | Next