Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater significance than a coincidence of geographical sequence. One minister in Vermont, it is said, confidentially revealed to his parishioners that if it isn't a sign of divine irritation over the condition of world politics, then it must be a renewed heavenly assault upon man's original sin. Every one attaches some superstition to the phenomenon, and no one, as far as can be observed, makes a practical fuss over America's flood wave...
...greatest thinker of his day, and it is no fault of his that today his very name is synonymous with all that is black and treacherous. He was not a wicked man, unless patriotism is a sin. He was not a barbarian, but rather an historian, an ambassador and a dramatist. Indeed there were few cultural past-times in which he was not adept...
with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper . . . Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern ; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi...
...first stunt was to impersonate St. Paul in prison at Philippi, in padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from his bonds, informed his delighted congregation that so could they escape the fetters of sin if they appealed to God. Declaring that religion is admirably "fitted to magic," Necromancer Plews promised to display his repertory of 3,200 tricks in future services...
Dieffenbach dismissed as "absurd." Half of the rest were chiefly bothered by the above-mentioned frustrations. Personal problems such as whom to marry ranked second in this group. A "sense of sin," which used to worry New Englanders, appeared no longer to do so appreciably; it ranked ninth and last among inner problems...