Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their hearings were put off until after Thanksgiving Day, while the government ran out other aspects of the case. "Hero" Burns. Detective William John Burns began last week in a heroic capacity. As soon as he heard that his 16 agents in Washington had been caught sleuthing the Fall-Sin clair jury, he announced that they had broken no law, "approached" no juror. He hurried down to Washington from Manhattan with a lot of papers, his face boiled red with righteous indignation...
...wrote, "The Sun Also Rises," the author has trained down fine: with a keen psychological insight he gives only the significant aspects of the brief dramatic incidents. There are no airs and graces about him, no strainings for effect. One will not find in him the vulgar American sin of falseness nor yet the favorite modern one of incoherence. In his prose we feel the wiry strength of steel springs: quickly, it moves with the panther's lithe, coordinate tread, so sure...
...rich as sin...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-In which the diplomat says in effect: "I regret I have but one sin to commit for my country...
Synthetic Sin. The girl, desirous of life in capital letters, establishes herself in an apartment house which, before the evening ends, becomes the stamping ground of bootleggers, thieves & a murderer. She does not go wrong...