Word: confessionally
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The Buzzard. John Collier was dead. Of that there could be no doubt whatever. But the members of the cast of Broadway's newest murder play thought that if they pretended John Collier was still alive, his murderer would reappear to investigate. So they pretended, as hard as and...
Killers. This melodrama has a message. Act I (common-place): murder is committed in the back room of a speakeasy. Act II (excellent): a jury blunders through the process of finding the wrong person guilty. Act III (bewildering): prisoners jabber in jail, attempt a mass escape with much pistol spitting...
Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went to the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, in Reidsville, N. C., to confess her sins. She told him that she had killed her father and was sorry. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue accepted her confession and told the police. Mrs. Petty was tried for murdering her...
To the House of the Jesuits at Rome there had come and yanked the ancient bellpull a decently dressed youth who announced himself as Signor De Angelis. He must, he said, he must make an important confession to good Father Tacchi-Venturi. The porter, rubbing sleepy eyes, told the youth...
At the Congregationalist conference in Chicago, Dr. Malcolm Dana, Director of Town & Country department of the Congregational Church Extension Board for the past ten years, made a lugubrious confession. He said: "As a result of four years study of rural conditions, we find that only one-fifth of country people...