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...effort to clarify the issue sin the current debate on American foreign policy, a forum on the topic. "Wallace or Byrnes?--Are Russia and the U. S. Heading for War," will be present tonight in Emerson D under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the American Veterans Committee...
...Soon she has a second and better opportunity for mischief in the guise of piety. A country boy entrusted to a saintly and intelligent priest for schooling falls in love with Brigitte's stepdaughter. The woman separates them to punish their "sin," and sends the girl to a convent where she is even forbidden to write to her lover...
...this, of course, was done with the best of motives. As Outcast Dunne wandered through the cold capitalist world in his declining years, he would serve as a horrible example to countless potential deviationists, Trotskyites, Browderites, sectarians, bourgeois reformists, diversionists, factionalist-saboteurs and others contemplating sin. Thus he would, in effect, continue to serve the Party...
...Harriman and Co., etc.) in March 1929, as a holding company for all branches of aviation. For a time it flew high, controlling 81 corporations. But soon it crashed into such a welter of squabbles, proxy fights and plain bad management that Wall Street quipped: "AVCO was begotten in sin and carried on in seduction." Not till 1937 did AVCO turn into an honest woman...
...woodenest of the three, is mostly about the hazards of marriage. It abounds in high-toned dialogue: "'Oh, Marmaduke! How dare you speak so of your betrothed.' " But even at 24, Shaw was already crusading (in this case against closed bedroom windows), commenting boldly on sex and sin, fluttering the gentry with open references to radicalism, atheism and the newfangled device called the electric light...