Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walls. Two members temporarily trapped on the second floor, gesticulated appealingly to the crowd below with cries of "Help!" but it was correctly surmised by the spectators that the victims were beyond all possible assistance. Fortunately no casualties occurred. That the conflagration was conceived in some form of sin or sorrow, was the report of several witnesses...
...there are really only two changes of scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...
...serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME, Feb. 25) "do not commit a sin ... by subjecting themselves to this humiliation . . . but if they do so it must be as a result of their own decision. . . . The government has promised not to abuse its knowledge of the priests' residences, but it must be remembered that there are elements in the Government, radical in the extreme...
Poor docile Milly was distraught. Ten years before she had started sinning, but for nine of the ten she had been so accustomed to her comfortable afternoon-a-week with Arthur that she had left off thinking it sin. Moreover Arthur, that elderly refreshment, was the reason she was able to be so good a wife to Ernest. Ernest had benefited by "the backwash," as it were, of her happiness with Arthur...
...that her sin found her out-or rather, Ernest had found her out-Milly resolved upon expiation. The united Botts offered her the opportunity. Determined that Titford township should not interpret Ernest's bequest as a Bott scandal, the family council decided that each in turn should harbor and make much of Milly. Before Milly had nearly gone this painful round, her sin was thoroughly expiated...