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...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...
...film. What Price Glory impressed him very much, although he found the slang difficult to understand, particularly that used by the Marines. The liberality of the Manhattan theatre he found impressive for he, perhaps naturally, has no sympathy with censorship. Ah well, no more have I; but I must confess that when one goes to a first night these days, it is a bit dangerous to take the young daughter of mother's friends, if you understand what I mean...
...have been beaten in two successive general elections by huge and increasing majorities. Either the people are wrong or we Democrats here in Congress who have made the record for our party the last four years are wrong. From that direct issue there is no escape. For one, I confess myself deeply shamed and moved to searching of my own conscience and review of my own conduct here and diligent study of the course of the Democrats of the two Houses when I read in the newspapers constantly that customers are rushing to Wall Street to buy stocks, feeling assured...
...they sang hymns of salvation, saw their sins stand horrible and naked before them. The evangelist leapt to the rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt chill dawn creep through an open door. A solitary woman came toward him. She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky. When she began to speak, a little hysterical...