Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints, and from this same stern eyric now comes a new concept of what Sin, traditional antagonist of all that was holy in Boston, will mean to New Englanders in these unsettling times...
Harry Truman decided on a quiet week ; he ducked his weekly press grilling, with the excuse that he had nothing special to announce. Newspaper editorials pointed out that omission might also be a sin. When the President failed to meet returning Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes at the capital airport, Washington buzzed furiously once again. Scolded N.Y. Timesman Arthur Krock: "Mr. Truman and his staff should have realized ... that his absence . . . would set up a whispering gallery." But even the hard-hearted Krock was moved to concede grudgingly that "the President is a prisoner of his office . . . there...
...effort to clarify the issue sin the current debate on American foreign policy, a forum on the topic. "Wallace or Byrnes?--Are Russia and the U. S. Heading for War," will be present tonight in Emerson D under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the American Veterans Committee...
...Soon she has a second and better opportunity for mischief in the guise of piety. A country boy entrusted to a saintly and intelligent priest for schooling falls in love with Brigitte's stepdaughter. The woman separates them to punish their "sin," and sends the girl to a convent where she is even forbidden to write to her lover...
...woodenest of the three, is mostly about the hazards of marriage. It abounds in high-toned dialogue: "'Oh, Marmaduke! How dare you speak so of your betrothed.' " But even at 24, Shaw was already crusading (in this case against closed bedroom windows), commenting boldly on sex and sin, fluttering the gentry with open references to radicalism, atheism and the newfangled device called the electric light...