Word: confessor
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...county judge, in the Kentucky sense, is the local law enforcer, political leader, friend in need of the political faithful, comptroller of patronage and state-relief funds, and father confessor to anyone with a problem. Cooper found that as many as 30 people crowded into his office every morning. His desk was in the corner of the room and the potbellied stove was in an adjacent corner. Cooper recalls what it was like on a cold day: "Early in the morning everybody would cluster close up around the stove until...
...Father Confessor. There is little doubt that Sokolsky, whose column is carried by an estimated 300 papers, has great influence with some members of the McCarthy committee and its staff. Sokolsky and McCarthy are old friends, dating back to around 1950 when McCarthy was a novice in the field of anti-Communism and sought advice from such "specialists" as Sokolsky. It was Sokolsky, his friends say, who brought Cohn and Schine to the attention of McCarthy and got them their jobs with the subcommittee. Ever since, Cohn has acknowledged his deep respect for Sokolsky, considers him a father-confessor available...
...success, but that is enough to ruin him. With a magnificent effort of his whole soul-it is the finest scene in the film-he converts the lady of the manor. But the strain is too much for her heart, and she dies the same night. Everybody blames her confessor...
...Marchese Ugo Montagna. Soon Anna Maria was his acknowledged mistress, accepting an $800-a-month allowance and living with him openly. But last summer Ugo threw her over. La Caglio began to go to church, then retired to a Florence convent. Later, urged by her conscience and her confessor, she decided to tell...
...paperhanger in off-hours, has often taken students who wanted to ears extra money on jobs with him. Frank A. Coughlin at Adams House has specialized in providing noiseless study rooms for frantic pre-meds before final exams. One custodian declares that he has served "as house mother, father, confessor, and loan shop." But regardless of student friendships, all House night watchmen insist that they have never relaxed in inforcing the 8:00 p.m. pariotal rule...