Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There can be little question of the morality of the American stage. John Roach Straton, Charles Sumner and the other "reformers" of this wicked world have precluded the survival of any element of general reputability in our amusements. Their activities have put SIN in the headlines and they find themselves powerless to take...
...Clough '24 of Reading was elected captain for the coming year while Harris Leon Kempner '24 of Galveston, Texas, was chosen to manage the next year's team. Last year Clough, as number three of the University golf team, played a consistent game and was one of the factor sin the team's winning seven of its nine matches last spring. Clough also played on his Freshman team as well as the University sextet...
...announcement that 46 automobiles have been tagged within the last two days for infringement of the parking laws is rather a startling one. For, altho parking in the wrong place is hardly a sin, it will hereafter cost the owner of the car the sum of ten dollars. Except for the leniency of Captain Brennan there would be 460 less dollars in the pockets of various student owners already...
...literary phenomenon, he is astounding. Why has he succeeded so vastly? In the first place, he tells a story, and nearly always an old enough one so as not to unduly tax the public brain. His books are clean, his heroines beautiful and virtuous, his villains black as sin. Each of his books contains a moral idea. He writes badly, but directly. He is sincere?he uses his cliches as if no one had used them before. And he is completely and happily impervious to criticism...
...Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas?immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch?sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend...