Word: confessions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Government and pay a delinquent tax on $226,000 for the years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read over the strenuous objections of Snorkey's attorneys, who maintained a lawyer could not "confess" for his client, Attorney Fink heaved a sigh. "Oh, my conscience!" he sighed. "They've got him nailed to the cross...
...biggest crime of its nature in U. S. history (TIME, Sept. 4). Although Criminal Wolf had a conference with Chief Justice Harry M. Fisher before the trial and quoted the Bible glibly, he was accorded no leniency because during his twelve years of theft he made no attempt to confess until he thought auditors were tracking him down. Chicagoans, pleased by the unexpected swiftness of Justice, continued to pun about "keeping the Wolf from the door...
...Matthias, to his friend Timberlake, to Natalie; Garth's memory haunts them. Moved by a common impulse, Natalie and Timberlake meet at the place where Garth died - a great rock that looks like an Egyptian tomb, with a hole in it that looks like a door. They confess they love each other, and Matthias sees them. When Matthias accuses her, Natalie is honest with him, tells him she has always loved Timberlake. They try to patch things up; Timberlake goes away. One day after a quarrel Natalie is missing. Matthias finds her body down in the woods, where Garth...
...painfully conscious of our own weaknesses. We represent in India all the principal religions of the earth and it is a matter of real humiliation to confess that we are a house divided against itself, that we Hindus and Mussulmans are flying at one another's throats...
...Either alternative will be unpleasant. Indeed it is obvious that the limits of direct taxation have been reached and the gap is not going to be filled merely by reiterating our fiscal convictions. I prefer to see the gap bridged by effective economies, but I confess the gravest doubts whether the MacDonald Government is capable of effecting economies on the scale needed...