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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notre Dame's second team-a confession of overconfidence-was scored on by the Navy, but the first, when called on, performed as expected. Notre Dame 14, Navy 7.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

"If you are unwilling to discharge your sworn obligations to the Federal Government or wish to make a confession of your inability to effectively direct the activities of your department, for which a large proportion of a $36,000.000 appropriation is allotted, the admission should be made primarily to your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Buck-Passing | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

It's a Wise Child. Many are the ways in which a girl can rid herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Author Bedel has a droll vivacity all his own. When his Bolivian Planter Cortes, newly rich, buys up the old estate of Fontecreuse in Touraine (southern France ?the Contes Drolatiques country), he installs an elevator, removes a Gobelin tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Green Paper | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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