Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Bolsheviks have committed the unpardonable sin of holding American ideas up to ridicule in a Moscow moving picture theatre it seems quite certain that their recognition by the United States will be indefinitely postponed. The clever satire of the American business man's conception of Red Russia as a waste of ruins, overrun by millions of razor-shy, bomb-throwing blackguards shows a sense of humor perhaps newly-born, as the Times correspondent insinuates, but in any case in an extremely healthy condition...
...John Roach Straton when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the teachings of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, prominent New York Modernist clergymen. "They appeal to curiosity and to vanity. They tell their congregations that everything is all right. Instead of rebuking sin, they soft-soap. What is the use of a preacher if everything is all right...
...fashioned to the point of slightly addled brains. Son and daughter are of the newer scope, independent, impudent. They are constantly snooping about in quest of suppressed desires and easily fall under the spell of a fashionable, artificial poet-soul in spats. He preaches hypocrisy as the one great sin of a modern world where other sins have been abolished through epigrams...
...mouthpiece of the Grafters' Oil Party. Doheny is here in the Capital. The battle cry of the Republican Party has become 'If you want dough, go to Doheny.' They say Fall is the man who put dough in Doheny; that he is the man who put sin in Sinclair; and is the man who put a dent in Denby...
...undertakes to show that over one half of America's future citizens now receiving training in the public schools "will, under temptation, have an unethical outlook on life." Scores of school-children, according to Mr. Shephard, assented to such statements as "Cheating a railroad is not so much a sin as cheat a person," and "If a storekeeper gives you too much change, it is all right to keep it, because he would probably do the same if you paid him too much...