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GOETHE says in his old age that all his works were but parts of one great confession. It has been claimed that this was true of every artist and it probably is, though the dramas or Schiller and the Epics of Homer may offer some difficulties to the interpreter, and...
The story was treated in the U. S. press like the confession of a man who publicly admits that he is going to buy a rifle and expects some day to practice on his neighbors. The real story was that Signor Mussolini spoke as might a sturdy householder who said...
Of course it is not to be expected that such a public show as the Sacco-Vanzetti, case very obviously has become, will pass from the boards without first being thoroughly drained of all apparent significance. Indeed, it is not altogether an unhappy outlook to suppose that lawyers and politicians...
The committee also proposed to delete entirely the old article of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith: "Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract [for marriage], being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract."
The military judges, sitting in stiff gold braid upon the bench beheld a wiry, dynamic little prisoner who rattled the bars of his iron cage,* and hurled lightnings of defiance. "What more do you want? What more do you want?" he shouted as the presiding judge strove to compel at...