Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Deacon. A benign and silver haired old sinner has been made the hero of this play. As played to perfection by Berton Churchill he will unquestionably be much loved of the masses. You understand, of course, he is not really and forever wicked...
...wayfaring man or woman, the unhappy sinner the lonely man or woman does not turn to the college or education for happiness but to the church...
...emphasized, dramatized, sentimentalized, moralized and painstakingly advertised for eight days by newspapers good, bad and indifferent. Chapman's picture appeared time and again: "Picking his jury. . . . Answering prosecutor. . . . Talking with counsel. . . . Eating lunch." And the "color" paragraphists described him: "Master criminal mind. . . . Intellec- tual desperado. . . . Misguided genius. . . . Stoic sinner. . . . Finely modeled head of a thinker.* . . . Artistic hands...