Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensual glean his grit from pink periodicals of dubious editing, but the uniformed saviour of souls and director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian and the blessed...
Although they have undoubtedly added moral and social simple-mindedness to political chicanery, long the besetting sin of journalism, the tabloids have, nevertheless, demonstrated that there is a "Main Street" on Third Avenue. Where Gopher Prairie gobbled private gossip, the Bowery relishes public scandal. Among the millions most unfortunately herded in cities, the starved minds fed by the new press are the literate leaders. It is in part their grotesque reflection in the picture papers that gives shape to the apprehensions of "The New Barbarians" and truth to the pessimism of "The Phantom Public...
...play itself was originally entitled "Make-Believe", but was changed when the author was reminded of A. A. Milne's play of the same name. Making believe was the sin of Adam Baxter. He had always longed for knowledge, had always hoped to learn to read: but he never had succeeded. His longing was so keen, however, and his innate love of books so great, that he brought quite a number of volumes, irrespective of their contents...
...sitting under a tree with a couple of friends with a mint julep on a hot summer's day is a sin, then send me to hell...
...Professor Ross is not, and is not likely to be, president of Wisconsin. He has twice (1914, 1915) been president of the American Sociological Society. He has written books, Honest Dollars, Sin and Society, Latter Day Sinners and Saints, The Russian Soviet Republic. But Wisconsin has a brand new president of whom it expects much, Dr. Glenn Frank, lately editor of the Century. And Dr. Frank is still on unfamiliar ground. He has been going cautiously, observingly; has been noncommittal in deed and statement, so far. He has said he is "willing to be reactionary as the Tsar of Russia...