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Word: confessions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning ago I ran across the words "unprincipled", "irresponsible", "invidious", and "shibboleth" in your paper. I confess that I am not up to all these big words before breakfast, since I am a simple man, and especially since (as possible subsequent investigation by secret-agents Wyant and Poskanzer will bear out) I am only an English major. Yet the April 26th letter, by the individuals mentioned above, confuses me a little. Far from wishing to submerge myself in this blood-bath of fierce partystrife, I would merely like to tender timidly some thoughts which are in no way representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Election Revisited | 5/2/1950 | See Source »

Even Californians, who love nothing better than a noisy, unorthodox, whirling political campaign, had to confess to a feeling of bleary-eyed dizziness. Just as their primary election merry-go-round was speeding up, grey, quiet Senator Sheridan Downey jumped off. From Bethesda Naval Hospital he announced last week that he wouldn't be riding for the Democratic nomination after all. Reason: peptic ulcers and general weariness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Mad Whirl | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Cardinal will know that Ghislana doesn't really stand a chance of getting Stephen away from his calling. Author Henry Morton Robinson, a onetime Reader's Digest roving editor, has at this point only half digested his hero's fictional possibilities. By having Stephen confess it all to wise old Dom Arcibal, Author Robinson handily saves Stephen and his novel as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Kid to Papal Prince | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...confess that I don't completely understand how your letter column is conducted. Perhaps this is because I am merely a junior and haven't learned the ropes yet. Perhaps, old hickory stick, it is because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asks Explanation | 4/1/1950 | See Source »

...Lady's Not For Burning" is a play with characters who are "as much 15th Century as anything." A young man, hearing of a itch hunt in the town, announces to the city's functionaries that he wishes to be hanged. To satisfy their requirements he will even confess to several murders. Things are considerably complicated when he discovers that the witch is an attractive young person and falls in love with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot and Fry: Modern Verse Drama | 3/21/1950 | See Source »

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