Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things we have to sell won't take the place of the Ten Commandments. . . . Copy can be casually optimistic, but no more. . . . National ads . . . are all loused up with overexcited, overeager, overhappy faces. .. . Another mortal sin is the four-color food spreads [of] so-called salads of marshmallows and sliced pineapple trapped in a bed of mint-green gelatine topped with maraschino cherries. I am certain these monstrous double-trucks have set American cookery back 50 years...
...Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME...
...Sin & Spirits. Madame Blavatsky began life as an adventuress. Born (1831) in the Ukraine of an aristocratic Russian family, she was married at 16 to General Nicephore Blavatsky, deserted him three months later to spend the next 25 years traipsing through European third-class hotels with a broken-down singer. For a while, she operated a shady spiritualist "society" in Cairo. In 1873, at the age of 41, she decided to try the New World...
...Society became synonymous with its executive secretaries, two of whom, J. Frank Chase and the Reverend Bodwell, now rank with the witch burners in local repute. Of impeccable upbringing, both men were of the cloth, and had not the slightest idea of the whys and wheres of Sin--merely reiterating with regularity to the courts and to available Sunday afternoon societies that it was wrong and was to be rooted out of Boston. Bodwell was an intellectual pugilist who was ready to go anywhere to supervise personally the humiliation of those who strayed, and was also ready to take...
...Endeavor Building. Its new facilities will be oppressed into the good flight, especially into the campaign to enforce, in all seriousness, the Massachusetts law against fornication. Even with its new liberal outlook, this last outpost of holier-than-then may well find mass distrust among those who take their Sin along with death and taxes...