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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Collection of the originals of the Ireland forgeries, the well-known literary fraud of the eighteenth century, have recently been acquired by the Harvard College Library. These papers comprise the most famous and the most successful of Shakespearian forgeries, and include both letters which purported to be in his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORIGINALS OF IRELAND FORGERIES ARE ACQUIRED | 10/8/1931 | See Source »

"There are more people starving for love and companionship than there are starving for bread," red-inked the American Friendship Society of Detroit, which offered "ABSOLUTELY FREE" lists of wealthy widows to anybody who had the price of a two-cent stamp. In four years the "society" had collected more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: We Make Thousands Happy | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

An hour later, with scores of motor-cycle policemen and deputies as guards, police issued from the court house with the prisoners, fired over the heads of the crowd, scattered tear gas bombs, and in the confusion herded the men into cars, roared away toward Jackson. Six hours and 40...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Ypsilanti's Fiends | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Silence (Paramount) is an oldfashioned melodrama, packed with episodes of a kind which are usually called ''good theatre" to indicate that they have small resemblance to life. A crook (Clive Brook) on the point of being executed for murder, confesses to a priest. His confession, which constitutes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

But Hoff is a soldier: he goes through with his plan. There are no hitches. He shoots the Prime Minister, makes a clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero, Post-War Model | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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