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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The mystery is not an exceptionally clever or even plausible one, but it is presented in such a turbulent way, with those French (or better 'adult') touches, that the interest never lags. The story is set in that other side of show-business that Betty Grable never sees. A music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jenny Lamour | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

Painful Confession

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twelve Tart Tales | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Miscue. In Omaha, Detective Inspector F. Franks secured a confession from a woman who had passed a worthless check that she had signed F. Franks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1948 | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Crime and Punishment (adapted from Dostoevsky's novel by Rodney Ackland; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) is perhaps too great a novel to be tampered with. But by the same token it would seem able to withstand a lot of tampering. Dostoevsky's great study of crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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