Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was in the period of the poet's early fame, after the publication of "The Everlasting Mercy" and "The Widow in Bye Street." President Lowell's citation to him then read, "poet and dramatist who tells with simple native force stories of sea and land, of sin and death, of peace...
...Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than two months to achieve. Meeting in Columbia Boss Tolbert and his Republican committee quickly nominated...
...some lameness; it is serving coffee and sandwiches to the poor and suffering; but it is doing no mighty work. . . . Thinking of God as a glorified Rotarian will never create a disturbance in the human conscience. Until a man has come to an evangelic experience of the conviction of sin, all other doctrines are tinkling brass and sounding cymbals...
...Barrymore, whom they proposed to question in connection with "statements in Miss Astor's diary," that life-worn old actor immediately reported sick in a Culver City sanitarium. However, no screen lover but a sad-eyed dramatist was cast as Miss Astor's No. 1 partner-in-sin. Browsing through Miss Astor's diary, the doctor's lawyers said they found that she had recorded experiencing a "thrilling ecstasy" in the company of George S. Kaufman (Merrily We Roll Along, Once in a Lifetime). "He fits me perfectly," stated Miss Astor, recalling, "many exquisite moments . . . twenty...
...training, tradition and conviction Will Clayton is a free trader. Any meddling with the economic machine is, to him, the supreme sin. Before the Bankhead Act] before the AAA crop reduction program, before cotton loans were instituted, before the Hoover Farm Board started to thrash around in the futures markets, Will Clay ton's favorite hate was the tariff. Said he, when ploughing-under was rampant: "There is only one means of preserving a correct balance between supply and demand in a great world commodity like cotton, and that is through the corrective influences of competitive price levels established...