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...Manhattan at a "Funds for France" dinner which she sponsored to feed children in Free France, best-dressed, frail Mrs. Harrison ("Mona") Williams was baited by a reporter who implied that to feed France was to help Germany. Said she tearfully: "I have nothing to hide. Is it a sin to be a Christian?" Said Guest Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.: "Mona, it's all so silly-everyone knows you are no more of a Nazi than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 14, 1940 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Unwritten conclusions of Gem of the Prairie: 1) though the battle against sin always seems most hopeless at the present, the good old days were far worse; 2) the Capone era in Chicago was less a product of Prohibition than the natural flowering of a great heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down the Cesspool | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Headed by R. Llewelln Brill '42, a reformed toper of note, the Prohibitionists plan to use revival methods to secure converts from gutters and rathskellers and to gather them behind the local Party slogan, "No More Gin: No More Sin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beware, All You Sinners, Here Comes Brill, Full to the Gills With New Political Faith | 9/28/1940 | See Source »

...fish . . . I acknowledge my sin in it. And for their mackeral, brought to them with their guts in them, and goat's dung in their hasty pudding, it's utterly unknown to me, but I am much ashamed it should be in the family . . . and I humbly acknowledge my negligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1940 SEEN AS REAL HARVARD TERCENTENARY YEAR, NOT '36 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...both sentimentalists and experts were disappointed. Not one of the six starters completed the 90 miles. My Sin, Notre Dame and Tinker Toy broke down in the first heat. In the second heat, Notre Dame was unfit to start, Tinker Toy dropped out in the first lap, My Sin in the third. In the last 30 miles, Notre Dame finally got going, roared around at 66 m.p.h.-but it was too late. The cup went to the winner of the first two heats, Sidney Allen's Hotsy Totsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hotsy Totsy | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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