Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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IT is in the nature of literate humanity to be sentimental about Sherlock Holmes, to desire a more intimate knowledge of the man than his cases vouchsafe, to ferret out his creator's inconsistencies only in order to dismis them airily, to raise the question of mortality merely as an...
One day last week Lloyd Warner, a 19-year-old Negro of St. Joseph, Mo. confessed to raping a young white woman in an alley after binding her with her stockings. The judge who heard his prompt confession observed that there was no necessity to "hurry things." But in a...
All men, however, ought to have a chance to work with a tutor. The decision as to whether a particular student should continue could be made to depend both upon reports by the tutor, and upon the honest confession of the student himself. By the beginning of the Junior year...
"The best lesson that California has ever given the country." It is worth looking into when the governor of America's most self-conscious state commends rather than apologizes for the ferocious lynching which overtook the murderers of Brooke Hart. Of course, the case was unusual in that it involved...
From the pair police sweated a full confession. They described the crime even down to the detail that Hart "struggled slightly" as they hoisted him over the rail. Their explanation of the murder: "We didn't want to bother lugging him around the countryside."