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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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To a Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Facts v. Truths | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

The plot briefly concerns the newspaper career of a divorce-murder mixup in which Miss Bennett and some socialite friends of hers are involved. She is working for Mr. Gable's paper and is alternately hired and fired as his moods dictate. Finally he himself is fired for breaking a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/23/1935 | See Source »

An ardent researcher badgered his publishers until Kreisler cabled his confession from Vienna. He wrote most of his so-called classical music 30 years ago when he felt the need of enlarging his repertoire and deduced that it would be "inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kreisler's Hoax | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Scarcely a day went by at Flemington without both the prosecution and the defense being pestered by the mentally infirm. Hag after hag claimed she knew the secret of how the kidnaper perpetrated his crime. Copies of the ransom notes were made to substantiate each individual's "confession." Yet what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SHOW FOR MONOMANIACS | 2/15/1935 | See Source »

The Hearst Press was reported still holding open its offer of $75,000 for a confession. Attorney General David T. Wilentz announced a party for newspapermen "win, lose or draw." And 20,000 citizens of towns in the neighborhood of Flemington were preparing a carnival invasion of Flemington as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: New Jersey v. Hauptmann (Cont'd) | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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