Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because suicide is almost the gravest sin in the rigid Communist code of political morals, the editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention...
...Today it seems to me that the besetting sin of the Associated Press is its worship of authority. This is in no small measure due to the personal attitude of Messrs. Noyes and Ochs. Mr. Noyes is a resident of the District of Columbia where his newspaper . . . depends for its success upon the army of officeholders. . . . The Star never offends and rarely criticizes the powers that be. It is not doing it an injustice to say that it has one of the most colorless editorial pages in the world; it can become excited over the question of retiring...
...Later she was taken in by Sir Joseph's family, so that she might become a good Catholic. But only one of the children remained orthodox: she took the veil as a penance for another sister, who had married a Protestant and was living in mortal sin because her children were being brought up as Protestants; for Stella, who married a divorced Protestant; for her brother, killed in the Great War without benefit of clergy. Sir Joseph became a religious maniac and his wife and only remaining daughter became his nurses...
...AINT No SIN and CAN'T You UNDERSTAND (Victor) - The first by Walter Donaldson threatens to rival his After I Say I'm Sorry and Just Like a Melody. George Olsen plays...
...Chinsura, Bengal, India, Ratti Sin-drinjian 7, married Djama Courg...