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Word: sinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside. Italy promptly tried to establish an alibi, claimed that the officers were not Italian, that the planes were private. The Savoia-Marchetti factory is an Italian Government factory. Il Duce, to whom no sin is greater than getting caught, demanded "an investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Passion Flowers | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...almost all members of the crowded household as well as a general bettering of their economic situations. Even Harvey's city wife indirectly contributes to the common welfare, since she reminds gruff Tom of an old sweetheart, thus softens him a little without actually leading him into sin. Sometimes Author Thomas, despite her zest for writing about the homely details of farm life, comes perilously close to setting her characters in situations where a showdown would be inevitable-e.g., when Tom's wife recognizes the reasons for Tom's increasing amiability. But by the time Edna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nebraska Plain | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...Everyone knows what damage is done to the soul by bad motion pictures. They are occasions of sin; they seduce young people along the ways of evil by glorifying the passions; they show life under a false light; they cloud ideals; they destroy pure love, respect for marriage and affection for the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Encyclical | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...alteration, but simply stuffs it into a radio-station and mans it with stock company people. Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogartj is the manager of a radio-chain who, in obedience to his hypocritical boss, rakes up a 20-year-old murder story as material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences of her grey past, horribly disinterred, menace her daughter's marriage. Even without the punch lines of Louis Weitzenkorn's dialog and its alien back-ground the situation is strong enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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