Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lying on his cot in the white glare, Anacleto was suddenly terrified to hear, softly, susurringly, as if from the Beyond, the voice of his dead friend. "Tit me mataste, Anacleto," came the spectral murmur. "You killed me. I am Areo's ghost. You had better confess, Anacleto. You...
Harvard may be wrong to admit these men in the first place but she cannot weight the burden of those admitted on insufficient proof. If a candidate is accepted, he must have met the minimum standards for entrance. Should any candidate lower the standards, he does not belong in Cambridge...
In jail, fire chiefs and prosecutors made Driscoll print his name, dictated sentences, compared the printing to the threat notes of 1931-32. Driscoll twitched, squirmed, finally burst into a babble of confession. For four days he gushed about his crimes, drove with fire officials the city's length...
Two Sundays ago Rev. Dr. John Hess McComb, broad-shouldered 36-year-old bachelor, mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's Broadway Presbyterian Church to preach on "Christ and Him Crucified." He was well aware that this and subsequent sermons would be worth exactly $77,296 to his new church...
None of these 20 stories was translated. Author Neagoe writes in English, which he studied to good purpose in. his years in the U. S. Author Neagoe's sturdy language fits his Rumanian senses well but seems awkwardly foreign when he writes of the U. S. One story ("Gavrila...