Word: confession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries so high that "to meet the demands would be ruinous . . . to the industry as a whole." Replied alert Agent Selznick: "I confess-indeed, I am proud-that I have substantially increased the salaries of my clients. That is precisely what I am paid...
...must confess I was never ill from eating apple butter with home made bread, but, in order to qualify, I'll offer my transgression of slipping away from a morning task for a siesta in the wood shed with a huge basket of butternuts. I was fond of them and the supply so generous I indulged past discretion. I fain recall a most distressing followup, which, I am sure, would equal or exceed any after effects of home-stirred apple butter. With this recital I hope to qualify as a member of the "Butter Stirrers" in full and regular...
...small town and surrounded by Russian troops with fixed bayonets. An officer boarded the train and ordered all American bank men to come with him. About a score of us were lined up in "column of twos" and marched into the village between files of soldiers. I must confess to an attack of cold sweat as we marched down the street not knowing our destination but fearing the worst...
...confess I am not the best available man," wrote resigning Mr. Whalen with exemplary modesty. ". . . Judge Mahoney is far better equipped." That new Candidate Jeremiah Titus Mahoney was better equipped, many a politician was inclined to agree. Onetime athlete (in 1897 he won New York City's all-round athletic championship), onetime law partner of New York's politically powerful Senator Robert F. Wagner (still his close friend), onetime State Supreme Court Justice (he resigned in 1928 to return to private practice), honest Jeremiah Mahoney, now 62, big-framed and firm-jawed, has made few enemies among...
...spies in Russia employed by foreign governments would please come forward and confess, it would help things enormously. This simple suggestion was earnestly put forth last week by Pravda ("Truth"), official newspaper of Dictator Joseph Stalin...