Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thou who dost shepherd the night winds and makes the clouds His chariot, pass along the horizons of our daily lives. . . . Forbid that we should be lured to drink from the goblets of spiced sin or let fall the wreaths of manhood from our foreheads. . . . Through Christ, Amen...
...point platform for the beatification of Mississippi, attacked the record of Senator Stephens particularly because he had almost voted to give a Republican, Dr. Willard Thorp, a $9,000 job as an expert in the Department of Commerce (TIME, Oct. 1). Mr. Bilbo made great capital of that near sin, declared that such jobs were for good Democrats, that if Senator Stephens should lose his seat to Bilbo, The Man would see that even Stephens, rather than a damyankee Republican...
...Christian Century, able interdenominational weekly, found the idea good, chiefly because Yom Kippur "emphasized the sense of individual sin which contributed to and merged with the sins of the nation. The analogy with our present economic and cultural plight is thus complete. Through our sense of guilt, as individuals and as a nation, we would . . . devote a day to spiritual stock-taking." Furthermore, declared The Christian Century, "the day does not lend itself to commercialization as do Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving...
...that the flagrant attack on the academic tradition which they constitute should receive its merited censure. Since at Harvard there are problems enough to hold our attention, it is seldom that an obvious need occurs to take a college like Dartmouth to task. Yet they have committed a cardinal sin for an endowed American university. The indulgence of Dartmouth and of the public is asked if Harvard is used to illustrate by contrast the objections to the murals...
...fact that they were once the property of Lewis Carroll, and contain articles by Andrew Lang and Thomas Hughes, Cambridge's parody on "The Dark Blue," "The Light Green" is next. Its attitude is evident from the names of its "authora": "Alfred Pennysong, Bred Hard, Edward Leary. Algerman Charles Sin-Burn. Thomas Carr Lisle, the late Edgar Allan Toe, Rosina Christetti, and Louisa Caroline...