Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pius IX. Rather too long to be quoted verbatim and in full, it runs substantially thus: "By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ ... we declare, pronounce and define" that the doctrine which holds the Blessed Virgin Mary to have been "preserved . . . immune from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and is therefore to be firmly and constantly believed by all the faithful...
Said Ray Foote Purdy, chairman of the meeting: "We are unmobilized and the foe ... is insidious. ... It is called sin...
...lofty sentiments even in uncultured and illiterate men! In its stead, man's one solicitude is to obtain his daily bread in any way he can, and so bodily labor, which was decreed by Providence for the good of man's body and soul even after original sin, has everywhere been changed into an instrument of strange perversion; for dead matter leaves the factory ennobled and transformed, where men are corrupted and degraded...
...Hollywood high-school miss who took lessons from a tutor while playing her first lead eight years ago, Fay Wray has since distinguished herself by extreme versatility in incongruous roles. Mauritz Stiller gave her a leading part in Street of Sin. Later she was billed with Gary Cooper as one of "Paramount's Glorious Young Lovers." In The Finger Points (see above) Actress Wray impersonates a sweetly scrupulous girl reporter...
...this were the worst sin of "Wide Open Town" it might have struggled by. After all, the average reader unassimilated to its background will not pause to distinguish between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig...