Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to the World War, let that nation which is without sin cast the first stone. Individual acts and words, however, make a bridge for international understanding. Last week, before 5,000 German-Americans, Cardinal Michael Ritter von Faulhaber of Munich, admitted freely that his countrymen and the Imperial German Government had made grave mistakes both before and during the war. He apologized personally for the sinking of the Lusitania, the invasion of Belgium and other acts of his fatherland. He said he was not representing the government, and would account for what he said only to himself...
...what his son:in-law, Edward W. Bok, has vouchsafed to the American public in regard to Mr. Curtis. Mr. Bok does not call his book- a biography, and only the lacerated imagination of book reviewers could call it such. Mr. Curtis must have made one mistake; he probably sinned once. Neither the mistake nor the sin is even remotely referred to. And for a very good reason: the book is not a biography; it is a moral treatise. The moral is directed to all young men now entering business. " Look at Mr. Curtis," it says on every page...
About two months ago nearly every newspaper editor in America committed the sin for which (in the eyes of the profession) there is no forgiveness. They allowed themselves to be "played for suckers" by a press agent. Harry Reichenbach juggled the names of Otto Kahn and the Green Room Club, and thereby got free publicity for Reigen-columns of it in every paper. Reigen is a play by Schnitzer, a great dramatist, but the point which Reichenbach took pains to "put over" was that it was immoral. How many of the millions who read the "story" knew that...
...LOVE-Pola Negri succeeds in occasionally vivifying a typical sirenade of Liane, the toast of the boulevards, whose specialty is driving lover after lover to ruin, death, or the booby-hatch. After tenting on the old vamp ground unrepentantly, through numerous reels, she discovers sin's ultimate wage to be strangulation and is murdered by ex-lover No. 19 in the middle of a carnival. A German film with the usual admirable mass-effects...
Lowell Sherman is one of those villains whose very dressing gown exudes a purple and intoxicating charm. In his person the seething repressions of the timidly virtuous find a delighted escape. He is an inexhaustible well of vicarious sin...