Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slouching Lawyer Darrow, defense counsel, arrived. Finding shy young Scopes in the crowd, asked Darrow: "Is Bryan here? Is he all right? It would be very painful to me to hear that he had fallen a victim to synthetic sin." The Courtroom. Lawyers Colby of Manhattan and Godsey of Dayton having withdrawn from the case (the latter cowering before public opinion), there sat with Lawyer Darrow and Teacher Scopes in the courtroom only plump, foppish Lawyer Malone of Manhattan and Judge Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Fumbling his soiled lavender galluses, slowly masticating a quid of tobacco, Darrow squinted across...
...rush rumpus and all the dusty sentimentality of love in the desert, they have made an ice-cream-cone comedy that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...
...toward new ideas in religion had shifted from one of indifferent uneasiness to one of militant fear. They responded to the war cry. No sooner was Dr. Macartney elected than his following turned upon Dr. Erdman. They began to regard a refusal to fight Liberals as an almost greater sin than being a Liberal. In the pages of The Presbyterian and in the faculty rooms of the seminary at Princeton, war was waged. Dr. Erdman was ejected from a long-held post of Student Advisor. It was even recorded that Dr. Erdman had been seen walking with Henry Sloane Coffin...
...only is to be annoyed by their wails, but if he knows they are fighting and permits the fight to go on, he may be fined and thrown into jail unless he has the temerity to pile out of bed and stop it. . . . "This bill creates another new sin, an unenforceable law." In Lansing, Mich., Governor Alexander J. Groesbeck vetoed a bill for the appointment of a state poet laureate. Forgetful of the state poets of republican Athens, the Governor's historical knowledge led him to describe the bill as "a reversion to monarchical customs" which "has no place...
Another new sin...