Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made bees, bees made honey; God made men, men made money; God made Satan, Satan made sin; God made a little hole to put Satan in. Satan said he would not go; God said he should; Satan said, "If I go, God damn my blood...
...many years have passed since John the Orangeman was gathered to his fathers, and Mother Advocate, in penance for her sin, has vowed upon herself a life of straitened chastity. But old John's death and Mother Advocate's remorse could not wipe out the past. Lampy lived; not only lived, but flourished on the jokes the CRIMSON kindly furnished him. Indeed, the CRIMSON may assert a modest pride in Lampy's modest humor, since the CRIMSON often is to Lampy what Prince Harry was to Falstaff--the inspiration, source, and fountain...
...ranks to know that we have in our Chief Executive one who is unfaltering in upholding the beneficent law for prohibition so challenged today by sinister forces. Permit me, Mr. President, as the leader of an army which day and night toils for the betterment of the victims of sin and misfortune to assure you that conditions are immeasurably better under this law than they were in those days when our great government was set for the defense and legalizing of a traffic that was an unmitigated curse...
Shortly afterwards all the citizens of Zikliev were arraigned before a Soviet judge, on charges of murder, and defended by priest Kosheliev: "We have done no sin! Jesus, the Lord Himself, chastised sinners in the Temple with a knout. I encouraged my flock to follow His example...
...this is much too romantic for a realistic age. Better the gargoyled truth of Sherwood Anderson's sardonic laughter, laughter which he finally admits is--black. But if life is not an afternoon of tea and toast and silver spoons, neither is it a night of sin, sex, and sentiment, and there is no particularly cogent reason why anyone should waste it reading laboratory manuals with colored jackets...