Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not only to Willkie supporters, but to many lukewarm Deweyites, this tactic now seemed a confession that Dewey really wants the nomination but is afraid his chances will be hurt by a Wisconsin licking.
You have to come back again & again after they have refused to go to Confession.
This strange confession was made Dec. 10 by a U.S. Marine who had been to Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Bougainville. He was Combat Correspondent Sergeant Roy Maypole, 29, onetime radio soap-opera impresario. He spoke too soon. When the Marines landed on Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay, Sergeant Maypole...
Richard Roswell Lyman, towering teetotaling, 73-year-old bigwig of the Mormons (5th-ranking member of th sect's Council of Twelve Apostles), was the subject of a brief, grim announcement from headquarters. "Notice is hereby given," it ran, "that after due hearing before the Council of Twelve Apostles...
Bernard Shaw wrote to Chesterton: "Faith is a curious thing. . . . You will have to go to Confession next Easter; and I find the spectacle-the box, your portly kneeling figure, the poor devil inside wishing you had become a Fire-worshipper instead of coming there to shake his soul with...