Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such lustrous raiment as Confederate uniforms and Scotch kilts. The walls are hung with crimson banners, like those in Sunday Schools, proclaiming the glory and power of Egypt in the best Negroid rhetoric. After Moses has been called to his heavenly home, the world is again steeped in sin. When the Lord God visits a jazz cellar in Babylon, so outraged is he that he repents of his creation and resigns mankind to perdition. But the prophet Hosea inspires faith in his followers together with sympathy born of suffering. Beholding his works, the Lord God's attitude changes accordingly...
...those of Hollywood!" declared Ted Lewis, the musical clown whose phrase, "Is everybody happy?" is known to followers of the stage and screen all over the country, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night at the Metropolitan Theatre. "The rot that is printed about the sin and bacchanalian revels of the screen stars is just evil publicity. I saw no more evidences of immorality or of unmorality while in California than you can find right here in this city...
...quaint notion this--that the sanctity of the Sabbath day goes into effect precisely at 11 o'clock, no sooner and no later. At first the demarcation of such a definite dead-line for weekly sin appears to be wholly illogical, but after a lengthy microscopic examination, there becomes faintly apparent the only possible loop-hole to plausibility. The authors of this legislative marvel may perhaps have the ancient Hebraic conception of a personal deity with all the very human characteristics of the Olympian gods, who, after the activities of Saturday night, is scarcely interested in what happens on Sunday...
...problem. A professor's daughter in a small New England college town joins her friends in a league to combat the moral vigilance of their elders. Shortly thereafter her father inadvertently opens a door leading out of the front parlor and discovers her in the processes of sin. By the end of the play he feels he understands her better, has made a less romantic, more reasonable adjustment to life...
...City of Sin? Sodom, so wicked that the Lord rained brimstone and fire upon it, was thought found by Father Mallon of the Pontifical Bible Institute of Jerusalem, on the plains of Jordan. A few vases, flint instruments, broken pottery, the ruins of an ancient wall were found, all covered with a thick layer of ashes. The evidence pointed to inhabitancy during the Bronze...