Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrival of uncollegiate clothing in New Hampshire was was looked upon as an impertinence in some of the better refugee circles. And however prejudiced the poor may be, Phillips Brooks House can still do the Christian thing by the rich. Lowella may go her old way, and sin no more...
...their elation at finding such an issue for the coming campaign, the Democrats at once found Coolidge, Mellon, Hughes and Hoover full of the sin of omission, for the kept silence about conditions when they must have been aware of them. For a counter-attack the best the Republicans have been able to do is to make an ineffectual attempt to implicate Al Smith in the mesh, at the same time maintaining that none of the guilty ones are in the party at present and that they are not liable for the sins of their predecessors. But the genie...
Sturdy old Sir Walter Runciman, 80, yielded a mite further, last week, to the biblical sin of pride...
...dean of Manhattan theatrical producers that he always wears a canonical collar. It deals gently and tenderly with a lovable old libertine who, in his dotage, calls his bastards to him from the ends of the earth that he may be entertained by inspecting the consequences of his sin...
...codification of horseshoe pitching as a formal sport, this is true, but it is certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned old men throw horseshoes in the yards of Florida hotels. They are the ones who like the game best...