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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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His resolve after weeks of vacillation to reinforce Fort Sumter was a confession of bankruptcy in statesmanship, which is concerned with the preservation of human values and not the destruction of them. After that decision, force of the mass, and not skill of the individual, was called to the settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler v. Lincoln | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity which contains many features of traditional excellence. Conversion, contemplation, confession-upon these it lays emphasis. One peculiarity, however, has made it famous and has caused its founder, Frank N. D. Buchman, Muhlenburg graduate and Lutheran minister, to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchmanites | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

* Last week Sheppard made, executive editor of Liberty made a two-page confession to his readers. He said in part: "It doesn't make any particular hit with us when people try to make themselves friendly by telling how terrible the old Post is getting to be. The Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: At the Waldorf | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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