Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Old Mr. Thom himself had stopped at the service station for a grease job, Wally confessed, and couldn't get one because there were cars on the pits waiting to be repaired.

These lampoons include appealing to the authority of " a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London " and " the famous Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa " ( who had already confessed to not being from Formosa in 1706 ).

“ Carl was telling me I had a natural ability and I should follow that line ,” Pletch later confessed to prosecutors in Missouri.

After being fatally wounded by an Aboriginal man, on his deathbed, MacIntyre confessed to a priest that he had exhibited cruelty to Aboriginals.

The Earl of Orkney later confessed that, " had I been asked to give my opinion, I had been against it.

The guilds, asserting that the Jews were responsible — several had been tortured and confessed — demanded they be executed, which the Council did in January 1349, except for a few who escaped to Alsace.

By the fourth century, however, " confessors "— people who had confessed their faith not by dying but by word and life — began to be venerated publicly.

In September 2000, Mike Baldwin married Linda Sykes but shortly afterwards, his drunken son Mark confessed he and Linda had been having an affair behind his dad's back.

However, the Emperor Theodosius II and the Patriarch of Alexandria, Dioscorus, rejected this decision ostensibly because Eutyches had repented and confessed his orthodoxy.

Leo's letter, now known as Leo's Tome, confessed that Christ had two natures, and was not of or from two natures.

A broadside song Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament was printed shortly after his execution and popularised the common belief that Kidd had confessed to the false charges.

Cortés interrogated them until each confessed, and then had Cuauhtémoc, Tetlepanquetzal, and another lord named Tlacatlec hanged.

Some years later he had confessed to the crime, and was convicted of perjury, but was unable to be retried for the killing itself.

A number of Essex's followers confessed that Essex had planned a rebellion against the Queen.

Also, Hoover confessed that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyhood home had been the town drunk.

Before the wedding, Mildred confessed that she had had an affair while he was away in the Army.

However, Jacob had little taste for text editing, and, as he himself confessed, working on a critical text gave him little pleasure.

As for the leaders of the Order, the elderly Grand Master Jacques de Molay, who had confessed under torture, retracted his statement.

It is a record of the trial of the Templars and shows that Clement absolved the Templars of all heresies in 1308 before formally disbanding the Order in 1312, as did another Chinon Parchment dated 20 August 1308 addressed to Philip IV of France, also mentioning that all Templars that had confessed to heresy were " restored to the Sacraments and to the unity of the Church ".

Taxil promoted a book by Diana Vaughan ( actually written by himself, as he later confessed publicly ) that purported to reveal a highly secret ruling body called the Palladium, which controlled the organization and had a satanic agenda.

Indeed, he personally organised the stoning of a woman who confessed that she had committed adultery.

The inquisitor could keep a defendant in prison for years before the trial to obtain new information, and could return them to prison if he felt that the witness had not fully confessed.

If they feel unworthy, they are encouraged to refrain until they have properly confessed and repented of whatever sins or misdeeds they may have committed.

Years later Harry Orchard, who owned a share of the Hercules Mine in the nearby mountains before it began producing, and who later confessed to dynamiting a $ 250, 000 mill belonging to the Bunker Hill Mining Company near Wardner during another miners ' uprising in 1899, would also confess to a secret, brutal and little understood role in the Colorado Labor Wars before returning to Idaho to assassinate former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg.

Charles himself is understood to have rejected the assassination proposal, but three conspirators — who implicated Rupert in the plan — were arrested and confessed in London.

He thought he was going to die so he confessed to his part in the murder.

Some later confessed they thought it a miracle that a White American Protestant would risk everything to help them.

When Billie thought he was checking up on her mission he told her that the person that gave her the mission was long dead and later Billie confessed to having involment in Hope's kidnapping and helped Shane worked with the others to free Hope from Larry Welch.

Senna later privately confessed to a friend that even he thought it was too dangerous to race but that he was a contracted driver and racing was what he was paid to do.

He thought it was her and after she confessed who she was he said he thought she was doing community service.

Sherman confessed to Megan that it was the result of a recessive flounder gene in his side of the family ( incidentally, Sherman also used this opportunity to tell Megan that he never thought Seinfeld was funny ).

( He turns out to be so after Alex, having come to see his estranged father in a hospital, has mistakenly confessed his feelings to another patient he thought was Joe.

When Karolina returned to Earth, she accidentally confessed to Xavin ( whom she thought to be Nico at the time ) that she was still in love with Nico, saying that she cares for Nico " more than she will ever know.

He appears to be a seafaring man and on his examination confessed the robbery but denied the murder declaring that he found the deceased lying dead on the road having ( as he supposed ) been killed by a fall from his horse, he added, that he thought it no crime to rob a dead man he appears very resolute and yesterday a tinker was apprehended who has confessed his being concerned in the said murder and robbery and has impeached two other accomplices, besides that above mentioned who are likewise sailors.

On his deathbed he reputedly confessed to a missionary that he thought that he might have killed Custer, shooting him from so close as to leave powder marks upon his face.

In 1785, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi published a condemnation of Spinoza's pantheism, after Lessing was thought to have confessed on his deathbed to being a " Spinozist ", which was the equivalent in his time of being called an atheist.

The Remonstrants agreed to refrain from ministering in the government-ordained churches, but confessed their duty to expound their doctrines wherever people would assemble to hear them.

Cao Pi agreed and held audience with Cao Zhi, who in great trepidation bowed low and confessed his faults.

She confessed her addiction to medical officer Dr. Phlox who treated her addiction and agreed not to reveal it to the captain.

Boyer and Morais wrote: McParlan agreed to testify, and did testify, that all those whom Gowan wanted removed had freely and voluntarily confessed to him that they had committed various murders.

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He agreed with the deal and promptly confessed in detail to 12 murders in Texas.

Given only ten minutes to decide, Laboa said he did not confer with the Vatican, but agreed to allow Noriega to enter the Vatican grounds-although from the very start, he confessed that he deceived Noriega, noting that he believed that Panamanian politics necessitated that his own role be to convince Noriega to surrender to the American army, not to grant him asylum within Vatican territory.