Word: confession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed with fear a Jewish butcher named Ludwig Frohwein was hustled into court at Weisbaden last week to confess that he had butchered a steer in kosher fashion...
...confess, I find it hard to give your paper an E," said the latter, "especially inasmuch as I received an 'A' on it when it was originally written eight years...
...been hearing much of late about the organic nature of culture. Your author must confess to a certain haziness upon precisely what this neat idea means, which haziness is not cleared up by reading the many treatises on the subject, Herr Spengler included. Yet many things which are happening today throw themselves so forcibly upon the mind of any reflective person that they simply cannot be ignored. We who live today are apparently going to have the good fortune to observe the break-up of a culture and the relativity of its erstwhile eternal truths, and also the misfortune...
...caused the death of seven lives by placing a bomb in an airliner in October will openly confess, he will save himself years of mental torture and free his conscience. A Victim...
Hitherto it has been the habit of producers to lead female spies to their natural, and well-merited end. And this reviewer must confess an inability to discern any ameliorating quality in Miss Bennett's performance. As a Russian spy, she is transparent; as a cabaret performer she sings horridly and dances awkwardly: as a lover she is meticulously unlovely, and earnestly mechanical. In short Miss Bennett has added another dud to her amazing collection. She is ably abetted in this process by a mundane story, by a stolid cast, and by a director with more memory than imagination...