Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life; minions of the Holy See threw his ashes and the sod beneath his feet into the Rhine...
...camp that "he could throw two balls at once and braid 'em." He wooed the manager's sweetheart Mary, (Sally O'Neil). He kissed her when she resented, in her athletic way, being kissed. He ran for home plate standing up on a close play-the sin of sins. He was pert, fresh, insolent, outrageous. But he was a born baseball player and the manager, Cliff Macklin, (Warner Richmond) knew it. After an entertaining series of adventures in which the audience sees expertly photographed pictures of Mike Donlin, Irish Meusel, Bob Meusel, Tony Lazzeri in real baseball...
Biographies, while often informative, are rarely definitive. As the years pass more facts are unearthed and legends accumulate, making transgression an easy sin for the biographer. It is the fortune of some few figures, however, to be acknowledged by their contemporaries and to be chronicled by their friends. Such in the case, with the late Charles William Eliot, whose life is to be recorded by Henry James...
Governor Johnson is a profound student of ritualism, which may be an original sin, but his interest in spiritualism and occultism is only casual...
DAWN-Irving Bacheller-Mac-millan ($2.50). According to St. John, a bad woman was brought to Jesus and he said to her, "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." According to Irving Bacheller, her name was Doris. He recounts where she came from, where she went when Christ said...