Word: sinner
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...Blonde Sinner-Unflavored theatrical hash...
...season was not very good. It dealt with a handsome wife whose husband stole to buy her pretty clothes. Whereupon he was clapped firmly into jail and she went to live with the villain in the vain hope that his wealthy influence would liberate the unselfish sinner...
...Blonde Sinner. A sleazy combination of musical comedy, mystery play, and Long Island society drama was injected last week and didn't take. The golden girl of the title falls into the web of a divorce suit as unidentified correspondent. Detectives and others interested assemble at her summer home. Moments of violent sleuthing are followed by moments in which the cast strive to act exclusive. Then there is a song and dance to confuse the spectator further. Of all of this the songs were best. The rest was indolent; a crude entertainment...
...which must be the experience of man. The rigors of reality cannot exist--they must be diluted by the discretion of Smedley Butlers, good men, indeed but never saints. For as has been recently stated not far from Harvard Yard--to be a saint one must have been a sinner. Yet all of this does not prevent the colonel from suffering the moral malignments of his superiors. The honored rights of host and guest bow to the higher standards of a tatterdemalion morality...
...Concord (N. H.) Monitor: "This is an age of overemphasis and our country is in that regard a chief sinner. But if we are to sin in this way, it is pleasant and not overharmful to sin by thinking too much about and spending too much money upon, football...