Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shanghai & Nanking raged, ranted. "The crowning of this doll," cried Shanghai's Sin Wan Pao, "grossly insults the whole Chinese people. We must continue the revolutionary spirit which resulted in the Manchu dynasty's overthrow to clean away this gross humiliation." Added the China Times: "It is preliminary to Japanese expansion in Mongolia whose people are devoted to the Manchu household...
...greater scandal to the faithful was the fact that they had taken the Body of Christ, perhaps impiously thrown it away. It is mortal sin for anyone but a priest or deacon even to touch the Host. Desecrated, St. Patrick's high altar could not be used for mass last week until a public service of reparation was performed...
...thankful to God, for He changed my life., ... I had a great craving for the pleasures of the world and thought the only way to get them was by going to dance halls and house parties. I led a life of drunkenness and sin for twelve years, and my life was a hell on earth. Drink was my god. On one occasion I lay in a speakeasy for five days and five nights without changing my clothes. I had been in the alcoholic ward of Bellevue with D. T.'s five times. Once I was there for six weeks...
...mystic sense of sin, no dark preoccupation with the soul, no confessions of failure appear in Dr. Mott's books and speeches. A resolutely practical churchman, he is solid to the point of saying: "Always plan your leisure." While at Cornell, Student Mott wrote out advice to himself which he has since followed: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society...
Charles Coburn, as the Chorus, gives a good, but by no means brilliant performance in a rather colourless part. Mrs. Coburn also does well as Chee Moo, the first wife of Wu Sin Yin the Great. But the whole business is a definitely pedestrian affair. The only really attractive character is Tso (Mary Hutchinson). As the scheming maid she is intriguing...