Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definition of sin as something that hurts life rather than offends...
Last week he came to Manhattan and, as President of the Trust Com-pany Division of the American Bankers Association, warned his fellow-bankers against the sin of bourbonism. Said...
...increase as I went on. It is another one of those stories, this time dealing with college life, in which the author sets out with virgin sword to slay the ogre of iniquity who has so long beset the world. Here he starts out by laying bare the sin and wickedness of our generation. I, being a more or less normal child of the said generation, have become to some degree weary of continually being sacrificed by youthful authors on their altars to Moloch--a state which turns to resentment when we poor boys are attacked instead of our sister...
...silk stockings she'll get. Then she meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...
...figured also, as well as a map of the Count's alleged dominions. Next day "Millicent" appeared in Hindu costume, as well as with her ex-fiancé and in several other poses; while there were a number of photo-graphs from the movie The Queen of Sin in which the Count was purported to have taken part as one of 80,000 extras, with such captions as: "And who is the intrepid horseman in the foreground, waving aloft the spear? Can it be our hero? It cannot. If, however, you have patience and a strong magnifying glass...