Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being both secretary of C. I. O. and head of a union which is in good A. F. of L. standing. His Typographers are pretty C. I. O.-minded but his C. I. O. connection is purely personal. The charge against Mr. Howard last week was the deadly labor sin of having, as C. I. O. secretary, issued a C. I. O. charter to 100,000 Northwest timberworkers who deserted A. F. of L.'s Carpenters' Union. Typographer Howard replied: "The president of our union, under our constitution, is the head of the delegation...
...fact that the Freshman who wrote the letter missed the boat as far as sizing up the point of the meeting, it does appear that his feelings were hurt--and perhaps others felt the same way--by what they thought was a breach of decorum, or at least a sin against good taste, by the very undergraduate leaders whom they had come to college hoping to respect. This loss of respect for Harvard's leaders must have been disillusioning. Loss of respect for the leaders of society in general always seems to make for bitterness in the hearts...
...heard a speech by Rev. Francis Peter LeBuffe, S. J., business manager of the able Jesuit weekly America. An expert at making points of dogma crystal clear, Father LeBuffe had a blackboard handy, covered it with white, red, green, yellow chalk marks demonstrating the meaning of the Trinity, Original Sin, Transubstantiation, Incarnation. And then Father LeBuffe went...
...sin Wong, a mandarin of much potency and some parts, was considerably dismayed when he awoke one morning to find his pigtail gone. A hastily-convened assembly of wise men was not much help, passed the buck to a soothsayer. This worthy declared that within three days a mendicant would appear at the city gates who would make all clear. In due time the mendicant appeared, turned out to be a professional expresser of public apologies and an old drunk into the bargain. Luckily for himself he had with him his granddaughter, Hwa-che, who knew all about solving crimes...
...side of a sow, the fat rich smell of her, and the squeaks of the little piglet he'd pushed away to make room for him, and the huge woman that tore him away from the sleek warm sow and hit him and said, 'You little sookin sin' (son-of-a-bitch), and something about piglets being money and babies a devil's own nuisance." The next thing Ivan remembered was his mother killing his father with an ax. And after that he was made page boy to a nobleman, because he fidgeted shyly when...