Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when papa broke the news? What does the new mama think of her famed stepchild? How would you like to bring up a murderer? Will she see him? Will she kiss him? Will she forgive? LOVES LEOPOLD IN SPITE OF FAMILY FAME. That's what I want. Sex. Sin. Brave little woman...
Colonel Roosevelt's sin was not belittling Smith but in the crudity of his tactics. Smith can always be trusted to give back more than he receives in an open fight. Opponents of his presidential candidacy only defeat their own ends by giving him a chance to hit back. A successful fight will not be directed against his governorship--he has done his gubernatorial duties too well. It must rather deal in obscure appeals to racial and religious prejudice; if it hopes to attract either vigorous denial or assent...
...boundaries she had lost the original soundness and vigor which characterized her founders. If Harvard had rated the importance of quality below that of quantity and consequently directed her efforts toward magnifying the latter, allowing the former to dwindle to insignificance, she would have been guilty of the sin of educational simony. Instead, the governing powers of the University during the period of her most concentrated growth saw that the only New England principles to be discarded in favor of others were those of a narrow nature; those which looked no further than the rock strewn hills and stormy coasts...
...philosophical William James parading the streets to pervert justice for a Bolshevist fishmonger and a Bolshevist ditchdigger, both of them murderers, both of them anarchists ! Imagine gentle Henry James, that master of manners and nicety, bawling out disorderly epithets at policemen, judges and governors! I say it is a sin against a fine tradition for newspapers and for TIME to harp on the fact that this rowdy roisterer, this half-baked "intellectual," this "radical nephew," Edward James, is related to his uncles. To decent Boston he seems more like a descendant of that other villain, Jesse James, the bandit...
...discovery of manna by the Israelites occurred on the 16th day of the second month after leaving Egypt, in the wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Sinai. Hungry, they had grumbled at Moses, Aaron and Jehovah. Moses and Aaron conferred and announced to the Children that the Lord had promised to "rain bread from Heaven." Towards sunset, the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud to repeat the promise. "At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread...