Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Ecuador, Mr. Young's brother Paul, missionary of the Christian Missionary Alliance, wrote: "Six or eight Indians showed a desire to follow the Lord and we prayed with them. Some of them made beginnings but had been pulled down by sin. Indian work . . . needs a great deal of prayer. Yesterday I saw the Minister of War again and made arrangements to demonstrate. . . . I shot [gas] at the soldiers but they were able to stand the gas and get at me. I then shot the grenade in a room and asked the men to go in. This...
...nigsberg, marched into the Cathedral escorted by black-uniformed special guards. A straggling 4,000 cried "Heil!" at the altar, which was flanked with swastika and German Christian banners. Dr. Müller recited the Apostles' Creed, mentioned Martin Luther and Hitler, preached a sermon on sin and forgiveness. Six hundred loyal pastors and state bishops attended, some of them giving Nazi salutes. Notably absent were representatives of foreign churches and the Bishops of Bavaria and Württemberg-last two of the 28 state synods which Reichsbischof Muüller attempted forcibly to incorporate in his Reich church...
...Philip Heimann; produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert). This inconsequential, mildly entertaining gewgaw was called First Episode when it was produced in London. Importing it along with two or three players, the Brothers Shubert apparently decided that the title should name the ingredients. The "college" is Oxford; the sin is carnal, boyish and fumbled...
...free hand with her pictures, under the congenial supervision of Producer William Le Baron. The completion of her third picture last June coincided precisely with the peak of cinema reform agitation by the Legion of Decency. The Hays office called its original title, It Ain't No Sin, "dangerous." The New York State Censors refused to give the picture a license. Thereupon Paramount officials in Manhattan sent the film back to Hollywood for a new title and other changes. When Belle of-New Orleans was proposed New Orleans civic organizations spluttered vehement objection. It was subsequently called St. Louis...
...Boston, serves as it is with manufactures who presume to flaunt sin before the faces of respectable people, maintains a solidly sensible position, the position at the Gay Nineties, that incredible age which refused to recognize the existence of a lady's by on the main through fare, but which maintained a segregated district running full blast in a back alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts...