Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overestimates the information of its readers. " This is the outstanding sin of highbrow journalism. . . "The ideal magazine article should be written as if the men and women who were to read it had just dropped from the planet Mars...
...American magazines are, each of them, too definitely either conservative or liberal or radical. This is " the sin of a fixed policy." " The ideal magazine should have no policy except a profound reverence for facts." The ideal editor will follow the facts wherever they lead, with the result that he is likely to be conservative in January, liberal in February, radical in March...
...noble character as he had thought he was. When Bee returned with the consequences ?a red little infant named Cecil? the trouble began. And the scandal and finger-pointing was much increased by the fact that Adrian Plummer, Guy's highly Old Testament father, proclaimed his son's sin from the pulpit and confessed that he, too, had done likewise in his young, irreligious days...
Discus.--Won by Graf (Y), 117 ft. 10 in.; second, McCoy (Y), 113 ft., Sin.; third, Stewart...
...addition to two quotations from poems, the opinion closes with such moral observations as: " Though justice sometimes treads with leaden feet, if need be she strikes with an iron hand. Verily, the wages of sin are death and sin pays its wages"; as well as such grim humor as: " There is no error appearing in the record, except the great error of the defendant in murdering his wife...