Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave indiscretion," cried the Daily Herald in a front-page editorial. "It is perhaps apt to recall," said the Star, "that Mr. Randolph Churchill once wrote that no one was ever given corporal punishment in the Churchill home . . . Mr. Macmillan may be excused for regarding that as a major sin of omission, for Randolph has been a naughty boy . . . Bend over, Randolph...
...bouncy 56, began as a bank clerk and simple family man. Then he branched out. He took a mistress, buxom Rina Bianchini, setting up her cuckolded husband in the haberdashery business. Two years ago, when the husband killed himself, Giuffrè married Rina. During the years he lived in sin with her, Giuffrè served as lay administrator of several Franciscan monasteries. At World War II's end, when money began to flow in Italy again, Bank Clerk Giuffrè set out to go the banks one better. He attracted the bank's regular customers by offering...
...opposite sides of the continent, a sin spot and a sun spot-Las Vegas, Nev. and Lake Placid, N.Y.-incurred the displeasure of the Roman Catholic Church. The issue...
...lightly till his wife's untimely death in 1933, an event that seemed so personally unfair that it shocked him into a generalized awareness of injustices. It did not make him a blind believer in reform. He quotes with tacit approval an uncle who said: "Ideals are a sin. We should love...
Said an Agriculture Department official, throwing up his hands: "You can't be for sin, and that's what they make it out." Making it out best was Christine Stevens, president of Manhattan's Animal Welfare Institute and secretary-treasurer of the hard-lobbying Society for Animal Protective Legislation, and the humane societies' most effective spokesman. Trim, greying Christine Stevens, 40, badgered Congressmen, testified at hearings, used some of her own money (Husband Roger Stevens produced Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Time Remembered, once headed a syndicate that owned the Empire...