Word: sinner
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...will be moved by what he hears is another question, for Dr. Niebuhr belligerently repudiates liberalism's "pathetic eagerness" to justify itself to the modern mind. He foresees the unpopularity of his dogma, concedes that little short of world catastrophe can make Babbitt think of himself as a sinner or worry about the problem...
Isolation support of candidate Willkie was without reason. Professor Taylor maintained, because "from the isolationist standpoint, the real sinner was surely Mr. Willkie." It is the duty of the opposition, he explained, to open up the fundamental issues, yet Mr. Willkie ignored the issue that was so plain to isolationists...
Patrick Joseph Dollan, Lord Provost of Glasgow, told Glasgow schoolboys that he had been a pacifist during World War I, was now a "repentant sinner": "I am beginning to wonder why it was that a good many of us in years gone by scorned the idea of training the young to defend their country...
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...
...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...