Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral conduct with Rose Ellis, 30, over a period of ten years - "Paid room...
...besetting sin of the tutors, especially the five resident tutors, is their unfortunate habit of eating together at a tutors' table. That seems to be entirely contrary to the purpose of the House Plan. There is, however, no special tutors' Common Room, but the upper Common Room is little used...
...formula, as printed in postcard form for handy mailing from "Bilgray's Tropic Bar & Restaurant": Babylonian Grape Brandy, Ice from the crest of Mount Sinai, Lemon from the desert of Sin, Gomorrha and Sodom Vermouth, Rum aged in Noah's Ark, Add Cain's Syrup from the garden of Eden, You then give it the Hebrew shake, and Say Hallelujah after drinking...
...begin to include a craving for Prostitute Teresa Burke, he hates himself so much that he decides to murder her. To lend the act godly significance, he pretends to himself that by making an example of Teresa he will scare the rest of Dublin out of their dearest deadly sin...
...this confraternity of shaving mugs came weekly the "Gazette" to echo the sins of the city. Jaws moved a little faster as men read of Carmencita's fateful night at Sherry's. And not only the villagers, but Manhattan's men-about-town turned to its pink pages to keep abreast of the tide of sin...