Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinner. "I traveled with a racking headache and a morphine bottle," Mary Chesnut wrote of her trip from Charleston to the secession conference in Montgomery, Ala. "I felt a nervous dread and horror of this break with so great a power as the United States, but I was ready and willing." In Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other...
Leggy Cinemactress Ava Gardner (The Great Sinner), whose first husband was Mickey Rooney and second was Artie Shaw, now felt up to the esthetic side of marriage. "I've grown up," said she. "I used to think books were only good for doorstops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. Now I read all the time. Same with music. I still like pop tunes but I'm getting to be a longhair too. A few years ago I thought anybody who liked to listen to symphonies wore long underwear...
...PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER (230 pp.)-James Hogg-Chanficleer...
...community of the just upon earth," i.e., a tiny fictional subsect of the Scottish Reformed Church, young Robert Wring-him put on the full armor of God, and then some. The story of his un-Christian soldiering is told in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner...
Last week the embassy publicly demanded that State explain the "sudden disappearance" of their repentant sinner...