Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stands for Hays Office. What is the Hays Office? The Hays Office is the office that saves you from being corrupted by any and all sin in the cinema. . . . There is a pledge of honor. . . . This oath is usually sung by the novitiate with the assistance of a massed choir. Novit...
...tolerance expressed in reformed Judaism; the study of independence and the good business principles of the Mormons; the gentle humility and ordered humanity of the Quakers, plus the militant zeal and unselfish devotion of those shock troops of the Lord-the Salvation Army, who fight in the trenches of sin's no-man's land to reclaim the tortured souls and clothe the naked bodies of those whom the rest of a snobbish world forgot...
...corrupt." Retorted Gide: "I was persuaded that each human being . . . had a role to play on this earth, his only, that resembled none other; so that any attempt to surrender oneself to a common rule seemed to my eyes as treason ... to be likened to that great sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no forgiveness...
...hate sin and love the brethren. And even in his corrections, let him act with prudence, and not go too far, lest while he seeketh too eagerly to scrape off the rust, the vessel be broken. Let him keep his own frailty ever before his eyes. . . . And by this we do not mean that he should suffer vices to grow up; but that prudently and with charity he should cut them off, in the way he shall see best for each, as we have already said; and let him study rather to be loved than feared...
Died. Edgar Selwyn, 68, cinema and stage producer; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Long on Broadway, he started as a film producer in 1912, put the "wyn" in Goldwyn when he merged with Samuel Goldfish in 1916. Director of Helen Hayes's Oscar-winning movie (The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Selwyn's best-known Broadway productions were Why Marry (1917-first Pulitzer Prize play), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926), The Wookey...