Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural processes of life preach purity to women? . . . Their evil books are studied by the young whom matrimony never joined. Writers, painters, and actors on the screen and stage, women by the fashion of their dress, who render self-control more difficult and thereby make natural craving for sinful self-gratifications more imperious than it would otherwise be, are doing more evil and committing a sin in the sight...
Mima. Exciting, spectacular drama. Hell's smart rulers, to destroy the good in man, invent a sin-mill. Through it goes Janos, model man. At the last moment the one good act he does makes the machine explode. The act: forgiveness of the charming sin-woman, Mima (in the U. S., Lenore Ulric). Says Molnar: "The machine itself is nothing more than a visible combination of our machine world and the psychological grind...
...failure to achieve such a union was partly ascribed by Methodist Frank A. Horne to economic inefficiency. Said he: "Waste in church administration and unproductive expenditure constitutes a collective sin of the churches. The losses due to inefficiency are shown by the surplus of Protestant church edifices, with three times as many sittings as there are adherents. Under Roman Catholic unity that communion has an approximate proportion of two and a half communicants for every sitting...
From Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, the delegates received little hope of a Methodist union. Said the Bishop: "I don't know as we of the South could join a church union which did not teach a judgment to come and punishment for sin. I am not narrow and bigoted, and if the other fellow can get along without these beliefs it is all right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have...
...Village of Sin (Amkino). People have learned to expect in any modern Russian film a cast of well-chosen actors and actresses with difficult names, acting competently and intelligently without makeup on their faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture...