Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repayment Deferred. In Fredonia, Kans., an ex-schoolmarm sent the county school superintendent a check for $75 (full repayment of the three-month salary she had once drawn) along with a conscience-smitten confession that she had cribbed on her teacher's examination to get the job, 53 years...
Handbook for the Future. Today in Russia Dostoevsky's works are officially permitted, but not encouraged for mass reading. This fact, coupled with the novel's own complexities, has caused A Raw Youth to be neglected in its motherland. Dostoevsky himself hoped that his cumbersome novel would have...
The story: a well-loved clergyman (Wyrley Birch) is shot through the head on a village street. There are no known motives, no clues, and it looks like an impossible case to crack. But someone must be tried and convicted, quick. Elections are near, and through their newspapers the political...
Joe's revolt from Minnesota convention then took the form of a thin mustache and drooping sideburns. He wrote adventure, mystery and confession stories for the pulps. But laws of nature and economy caught up with him. He went broke, and Betty became pregnant. Back he went to journalism...
Teamwork & Absolute Love. "This service pointed up some of the weaknesses in the postwar version of the Oxford movement.* The first public confession can be stirring, but the tenth is likely to strike one as the same old thing. And the fatal suspicion arises that confessions are made not through...