Word: confessores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search that began in February to fill a new post announced in January has duly come to a fruitful close: tonight Phillips Brooks House reveals the identity of the first lay confessor of the Harvard community. For the first time there will be one universally recognized asylum for Freshmen or anybody else plagued by those subtle woes that are all the more obsessive because of their intangibility...
...plan involves the sum of approximately three thousand dollars, to be paid to an official "father-confessor" to anyone who finds himself so beset by problems of any and all kinds, that he is beginning to see very little future in continuing to fight the good fight. This man might have an official position, but his work would naturally be confidential. The ideal man for the job would be one who knew the ins and outs of college life from personal experience; who would give sane advice on anything from religious problems to whether taking a girl to the Yale...
...Crown-with its 309 carat diamond, one of the "Stars of Africa"; its ruby big as a hen's egg from the Crown of Edward the Black Prince: the Stuart Sapphire from the Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with a square sapphire, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds had fallen off during the procession and disappeared...
Dolores and Pedro laugh at locksmiths to such purpose that when he goes off to the wars again she is no longer heaven's bride except in name. Her confessor, the dreaded Fray Sebastian, discovers her state, and his holy wrath is fanned by unholy jealousy. He dedicates his life to bringing these two paramours to a dreadful death. To anxious readers it may look for a time as if he would be successful, but Author Clayton steps in manfully in time's nick, turns tables right & left, ends his romantic melodrama with a thumping Hollywooden finale...
Before adopting the career of mass confessor, Taylor was a proficient organist. He was guest organist at the St. Louis Fair of 1904. An automobile accident that crushed his hands in 32 places took him from the manual...