Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Authoress Scott likes a big canvas. In Migrations and The Wave, she filled a panoramic picture of the Civil War with hundreds of figures, a meticulously colorful background. A Calendar of Sin made No. 3 of her U. S. historical series. Eva Gay is not quite so big (only 799 pages), but its figures are few, its background so subdued that attention is glaringly focused on the three main characters. Many a wearied reader will not be attentive to the bitter...
...Forsaking All Others, Miss Bankhead of Alabama is called upon to play the part of a young woman who is about to be married to her childhood sweetheart. Waiting nervously in an anteroom of the church, the bride-to-be exclaims that "she would really rather live in sin'' than go through with the marriage. Unexpectedly she is relieved of the necessity. Her groom jilts her for a dark, rapacious beauty he has met abroad. "Well," sardonically observes Actress Bankhead, "anyhow, Jesus loves me." The indecisive groom forsakes his new wife for his old girl, goes to Mexico...
...tenement lived one Hank Austin & family. Hank was a husky, ivory-headed warehouse worker; he made good wages till he was laid off. Then he sat around Union Square waiting for his money to run out. In the next apartment house Mr. Boardman, respectable widower, lived in increasingly uncomfortable sin with his gold-digging mistress. Fellow-lodgers were Andre Franconi, impeccable barber, suffering in silence his earned reputation of irresistible ladies' man, slowly dying from incurable syphilis; the Otto Drollingers, pseudo-intelligentsia, who played at being Russians and called themselves Vanya & Natasha. In a nearby basement a learned, demented...
...relative merits of secondary sources are inexcusable. When Mr. Cooper states that "Danton did not attain even to the Tammany definition of an honest man," when he asserts that Talleyrand "took no open part" in the controversy of the Three Estates of 1789, when he commits the flagrant sin of perpetrating anti-climactic epigrams, it is time to call a halt...
...advised that this sin rests upon the conscience of Missouri's Cochran, a Democrat...