Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss France-Harar's colleague, one Surgeon Orthman, vouched for her story, adding that he had seen three such executions within the year, in each case upon a female stork...
...Manhattan three years ago, Dr. Norris attracted attention by predicting from the pulpit of John Roach Straton, amidst wild gesticulations, that "within one hour" the sin-steeped city would be demolished. The man Mr. Chipps, whom Norris destroyed, had come into his sanctum, the church-study, to dissuade Dr. Norris from attacking his friends...
...Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here I am, send...
...violated. Recently certain members of the freshman class at Harvard were so indiscreet as to egg the seniors on to wrath and the rest of the college on to disgust at their mawdlin behavior. Now some members of the Yale freshman crew have committed the venial but vicious sin of cheating at examinations. So two colleges include certain individuals whom a Yale graduate of fame and fortune could call "These sad young...
...which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation, and sin...