Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose entire action takes place in and around a maternity ward of a city hospital, makes the high spot of Bad Girl seem like a Sunday School charade by comparison. One woman delivers a nine-pound infant, to the evident gratification of her none too virile spouse. An unmarried sinner leaps out of a window when she learns that her seducer has been packed off by his family to South America. In contrast, the independent lady who insists on being called "Miss" has come to the ward to bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath...
...found himself on occasion, and will wonder why, since the service occurred in an Episcopal church, the rector did not seek asylum in the superior custom of the Anglican communion of refraining from any kind of eulogy. ... If a saint has died a eulogy is useless, if a sinner a eulogy is impossible, and if like Tomlinson and the rest of us the deceased is neither a sinner nor a saint a eulogy tempts the parson to dishonesty...
...broader aspects of the subject be presented, and its possible bearing on work in other lines and on thought in general." For fear that his insistence on lucidity made him obnoxious to A. A. A. S. members, he begged them to regard him "as an involuntary, though persistent sinner" against obscurantism...
...Constant Sinner. Three seasons ago Mae West's lusty singing of "Frankie and Johnnie" and the nostalgic flavor of bar and brothel scenes made Diamond Lil a Broadway hit. In The Constant Sinner, which Mae West wrote from her own novel, the bars and brothels are Harlem, 1931, and Mae West does not sing. But The Constant Sinner is no tame play, nor is it a dull play. Though handicapped by a more effete period, Mae West in some of her lines attains the lush bawdiness of her earlier production: "That dame [Cleopatra] went in for everything . . . she even went...
...great Giotto painted himself into one of his murals at Padua as one of a crowd of penitent sinners. Last week the art world learned that Giotto's chief living disciple has also painted himself into a mural, not as a sinner, for he is a Communist and does not believe in that sort of thing, but as an artist at work...