Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. and Nephew Erskine Gwynne have now repented their original sin of writing for the lurid, gumchewerish Hearst Sunday Magazine. It was son Cornelius Jr.'s indiscretions in this blatant field which for years estranged his parents. Simultaneously Nephew Gwynne was writing from Paris a series which Hearst editors published as: "The Memoirs of Mrs. Jean Nash, by The Best Dressed and Most Extravagant Woman in the World...
Applicants were Otto Kourim, 28, and his wife, Helen, 22, than whom no two persons could benefit more greatly from a discussion of birth control-always accepting the fact that birth control is, in the Eye of State and the Eye of Church, a deadly sin.* Mr. & Mrs. Kourim have been married five years. In three of those years, they had three children. Mr. Kourim's salary has been $24 a week. They had many things to quarrel over. Six months ago, they began to live separately. Both sought divorce on charges of cruelty and neglect...
...such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of atheism and immorality the situation forebodes...
According to previous newspaper announcements, this was to be the funeral of a certain neighbor. The evangelist chanted no eulogy over the coffin. The dead man had committed every sin, he screamed. He was wicked, he had not been ready when the trump of Gabriel called him to judgment, and therefore he would go to eternal torment...
...love. He regarded the charm of wealth and power as nothing but illusions, and left his father's palace in order to become a wandering ascetic. After many years of reclusion and concentrated thinking he began teaching his system of salvation which would deliver all living beings from sin and suffering. He taught that men should save themselves by meditation and by the practice of a high code of morality, and that they should not rely upon any divinities. He condemned the worship of idols as severely as the offering of sacrifices, but after his death those practices crept into...