Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peace of Versailles. . . . He has the look of one whose head has long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver of a machine which overcomes his deafness, his whole body leaning half across...
...perfectly true that the distinction between a professional and an amateur athlete is often invisible to the naked eye. We have heard it said that one should be wary of carrying golf clubs for money; that sin makes one a professional golfer. The amateur rules may sound ridiculously strict, but they are not unfair, for the fact is that if there is to be any erring at all it must be on the side of strictness. Sport for sport's sake really does mean something! And this is particularly true of college athletics...
...ethics of such a procedure is debatable; but with regular classes closed, that question does not concern us seriously at this moment. More important is the opposite attitude, that of the man whose devotion to his work keeps him mixing with his neighbors regardless of his health. His sin, though in a better cause, is of worse consequences than that of the class dodger. The latter harms only himself; the farmer becomes a public nuisance and a menace to his fellow students...
...fact that the Conference has been praised lavisly and hailed as a great success, its first real achievement is only the beginning of things. The worst of the petty quibbling in the United States Senate is not that it prevents the ratification of the Four Power Treaty--that is sin enough--but that it prevents any possibility of a really successful Conference...
...this has a ring of plausibility; but it is only half the story. Besides the fact that the sin of discriminating against the rich in favor of the poor--so often committed in the name of democracy--is as wrong in principle as discriminating against the poor in favor of the rich, there is the even-present question of "How will the plan work". The "Times" does not take up this question. It contents itself with quashing the proposal on the score of democracy. But it seems to us that the matter of practicability forms an even better objection. Unless...