Word: confessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lining are the stolen bonds; concealed in the heroine's past is a presumably dead husband. The husband comes out of the past, the bonds out of the lining, and the heroine out of the coat. The faithful chauffeur appears with a revolver and forces the supposed husband to confess to looking exactly like his dead brother and to stealing the bonds. Then comes the punch of the play. It turns out?you'll hardly believe this?it turns out that the revolver wasn't loaded...
...shades of Don Juan and Cleopatra and all other historic fascinators, looking on, confess themselves beaten. One look of their eyes might captivate a paltry dozen of admirers?but the modern movie hero or movie heroine ranks his or her adorers by the gross...
...instance, I must confess that a Frenchman is somewhat disturbed and somewhat at a loss when he reads the catalogue of your courses. The minute--to him too minute--specialization of subjects, of courses, of examinations, the watertight compartments where you have in the sciences as in jail, go against the idea which we have formed of the unity of knowledge. I have never very plainly known, here at Harvard, whether I was an economist gone astray in the historical field, or an historian lost among the economic tribe, being actually a man whose ambition is nothing...
...Irish Times, Dublin journal, said: " We confess that after a very careful study of de Valera's proposals we are not in a position to enlighten ourselves." The general anti-Republican opinion throughout Ireland is that it is an ambiguous document and needs a good deal of elucidation by de Valera before it can be seriously considered...
...accepted the invitation of the Government of India . . . because I was ready and willing to serve India in any capacity in which it might be thought I might be useful; but I am bound frankly confess that I came here a profound skeptic as to the value and utility of the League of Nations. A fortnight's acquaintance, however, with the working of the Assembly and the Commissions has made me hope my skepticism was unwarranted...