Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solution? Mr. Baldwin's sin and Mr. Mellon's (as Mr. Lloyd George sees it) was to sign a paper in 1923 wherein Great Britain pledged herself to pay a great deal of what she owes. Last week all Europe saw a new hope emerge from a strange new source-the brown derby of New York's Al Smith...
...Sin No. 1. "To the best of my recollection I had been using the knee-chest posture for rectal examinations over a considerable period and later noted that [the late J. Marion] Sims had once casually mentioned his use of it also. . . . The occasion of my writing this is that about this time [1895] I secured ... an excellent publication by Walter J. Otis of Boston entitled [in translation] 'Anatomical Examination of the Human Rectum and a New Method of Proctoscopy.' " Dr. Kelly "for a long time intended to make this belated acknowledgment, giving [Dr. Otis] full credit...
...Sin No. 2. I operated on a Mrs. Thompson, a widow, aged 42, who had an enormous ovarian tumor. . . . The great mass of tumor filled a sizable wash tub, close by the rude table on which the patient lay in her poor dwelling. The tapping of the sacculi and the bleeding caused considerable soiling of the abdominal contents, and water was used freely from a pitcher to cleanse the abdominal viscera. After all was over, we sent across the street for the steelyards belonging to a butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated...
...book of this type, previous acquaintance with the characters treated is bound to influence one's preference. Mr. Bradford's interpretation of Lord Byron as a man who was moved more by the glamor of sin than by sin itself will not seem new or very illuminating to anyone fairly familiar with the life and work of the poet. The portrait of the Borgia, painted against the background of a blood-and-roses Renaissance (that familiar stage-set) deals too casually with the violent contrasts which from constant repitition have lost their original value...
...Caledonian economy of the Moral Law, Sin is paid wages, Death; but Virtue must be its own reward. Scotsman Cronin, in his story of the three-love-life of Lucy Moore, shows how Virtue, by seeking rewards other than itself, becomes a Sin, and gets the sinful wage...