Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skolsky is one of the ablest columnists in the business (he originated the term "Oscar" for Academy Awards) and by far the most popular. Most serious row he ever had was when he criticized Constance Bennett for her noisy behavior at first nights in a column entitled "The Constance Sinner." Actress Bennett invited him to take her to an opening and see if she could not be a lady. Replied Skolsky: "I'm afraid I couldn't be a gentleman...
...Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter how many haughty ladies might refuse to curtsy to his wife, the Duke could rest assured that he was daily...
Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter: "The Germanophobe Ickes belongs to that group in the Washington Cabinet that . . . seeks to put Roosevelt in the foreground of their dark machinations." Essen National Zeitung: "Ickes . . . official co-sinner of the drug king [Coster-Musica], whose vest is by no means clean!" Dr. Goebbels' Der Angriff (under a photograph of Secretary Ickes slumped, ungainly, in a chair): "THIS IS HERR ICKES. Instead of busying himself with the gigantic corruption scandal at home, which is his duty as Minister of the Interior,† Herr Ickes makes incendiary speeches against Germany...
Some, feeling that the U. S. Press has sinned often and greatly against U. S. Labor, did not blame Labor for making a whipping boy of the sinner, did not mind hearing C. I. O. denounce their publisher bosses. All were prepared to dine amicably on the fourth evening with John L. Lewis, who wished to salute the biggest outpouring of correspondents accorded any convention since the Democratic National Convention...
...extermination. Previously, however, Letty has announced herself to be the mother of the unhappy offspring, thereby covering the criminals, although she imagines that she is merely sheltering an indiscreet society girl (which is what the "mother" pretends to be) from exposure. By naming the minister as her co-sinner, Letty creates much crude hilarity, since the arch-crook is usually playing his part within a part, appearing to be a stern, puritanical partner...