Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights?Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death. But in Kristin Lavransdatter the heroine, for such she is, glows in all the golden vitality appropriate to a Viking female, and her man is a pagan philanderer; in The Master Ingunn, the heroine- by-courtesy, loses her pale beauty...
...predicted from pulpit of Rev. John Roach Straton that "sin-steeped" Manhattan would be demolished "within one hour...
Synthetic Sin. Colleen Moore is a competent comédienne and the idea of this picture (a small town beauty who, told that she will never be a great actress until she suffers, goes to the city to sin) has possibilities, but somehow or other neither Miss Moore's talent nor the plot is used to much advantage. There are times when both the story and the actress wink and twitch like someone about to do something really funny, but the moment always slips away, the wit is not managed, and what is left remains small-town fooling. Best...
...stood and declared that man needs a new concept of God based on science, a concept such as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, famed modernist preacher, might formulate. He said the ten commandments would have to be revised for this enlightened age. He declared there is no sin...
Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...