Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calling to the point of professionalism, became a public enemy in the way that any large class outside the law does; he settled his differences outside the law, to the accompaniment of slaughter and terrorism. The early colonial fur traders became suspect for the same reason, although the sin of the bootlegger has been aggravated by a centralization which made him a vast entrepreneur in other criminal fields, and produced the American genus racketeer, with all that it connotes in the breakdown of municipal, state, and even federal administration...
...Roth, Cliff Edwards, June Knight) straggle by hook or crook into the cast of a show being produced by an impressionable young socialite (Charles "Buddy" Rogers). After amicable bickerings between Dunn & Roth and Rogers & Knight, and after the efforts of a villainous café proprietor to commit the cardinal sin of preventing the show from going on, the first night is a huge success. A handsome and unusually rowdy adaptation of the musicomedy that played in Manhattan last winter, Take a Chance repeats most of the sketches that were successful on the stage. Good new songs: It's Only...
...advertisers and buyers is its sole "right" to the names and numbers. Ergo, H. A. A. has sole "right" to names and numbers. And if this suffices not to convince the newspaperman, he is warned that the way of the transgressor is likely to be strewn with those who sin and lose the privilege of press conference...
...half of the doctors in the country would start bootlegging chemical babies. They would use this as a money-making scheme, and I will not stand for that. I have developed this system after many years' research in an effort to pro duce a new race, free from sin and crime, and I do not intend to have it commercialized...
...shares of the Wiggin family's stock at boom prices and besides had a cash profit of $1,452,000 from operations. No crime did the investigators attempt to fasten on Mr. Wiggin but the committee's efforts seemed bent on accusing him of a deadly sin: greed...