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Shaken by their joint experience as jurymen in Poet Masters' earlier Domesday Book, seven representative men of Le Roy, Ill., resolve to confess the inmost secret of their lives. The confessions, mulled by the coroner, complicate his decision to marry Arielle, young, beautiful, mysterious. Her mystery resolves itself into insanity. The coroner devotes the rest of his life to guarding Arielle. Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth...
...Nassau Hall here at Princeton have about them a charm and tradition that calls to mind almost poignantly the older America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic halls of Yale and Princeton and the invasion of Harvard by an artificial Quad system (and undoubtedly it must be in Gothic) while Yale...
...Vagabond's favorite literary characters is Dr. Johnson, and it grieves him to confess that he is forced to admit a flaw in his greatness. For Boswell repots him to have maintained that the weather had no effect whatsoever upon the human disposition and to have scorned the weakness of his biographer who admitted to depression during long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those...
...must know ourselves! We must confess that we are terribly poor and that our people are suffering miseries which justly horrify the civilized peoples. We must confess that our political life is corrupt to the core, and that most of our homes are nests of crime, of injustice, oppression, lynching and suicide...
...proverbial amateur detective proves his excellence in the face of five ship's passengers who confess to the murder, and several others who are under suspicion, in Murder at Sea (Minton, Balch...