Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program follows: Now Thank We All Our God . . . Karg-Elert (Mr. Phelps): Eye Hath Not Seen (Holy City). . . Gaul (Mrs, Metras): Prelude to Parsifal. . .Wagner (Mr. Phelps): Oh Man Bewil Thy Awful Sin. . .Bach (Mr. Phelps): Into Thy Hands (God's Time is Best). . .Bach (Mrs. Metras): Sinfonietta (God's Time is Best). . .Bach and Toccats (Symphony) Wider (Mr. Phelps...
...never held that man was vile. It was for this very reason that he found himself in disagreement with the teachings of Christianity. He spoke of the original sin as a "theological nightmare." La Rochefoucauld was as much his enemy as Rousseau. For him, man was neither bestial nor divine; he was human; that is, he was torn between a higher will and a lower...
After living in sin with the Trigger, the upright young lawyer who had proposed to her, finds them. She shoots the Trigger who had killed the drunken boy and comes to trial before her father, a rugged judge. It all turns out nicely and the audience goes home happy. One hears that George Raft refused to take the nasty part, fearing to get a snaky reputation and be hissed by the kiddies like William Powell or Wallace Berry...
...said, "when a dozen were in Central . . . and Latin American states outbidding each other in a foolish, reckless search for business." "Was your bank represented at Belgrade?" asked Senator Costigan. "It was not," snapped Partner Kahn. Asked to criticize unethical bankers, he philosophized, "Let him who is without sin first cast a stone...
...opponent off his feet. Then, just when life was getting a little easier, girls came into the picture. Painfully shy and equally susceptible, Vridar fell prey to another set of bullies. The story leaves him still in his teens, in the comic-tragic age, haunted by the chimeras of Sin and Nobility. Between the two Vridar had a bad time, nearly went insane with brooding. The story ends on a comparatively cheerful note, with the ghosts that are tormenting Vridar's half-crazy conscience blown away in gusts of healthy laughter...