Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That is a sin, and we have been guilty of it, and of this sin we must purge ourselves...
...subject of peace the Protestants at Cleveland were really able to get together. They were for it as unanimously as they were against sin. Manhattan lawyer John Foster Dulles, head of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just & Durable Peace, declared...
Bigger nations than Switzerland have been consumed by Nazi fury for fewer sins. Switzerland is democratic; she is "polyglot"; her largest racial group is German. Her culture is incurably liberal and her biggest political party is Social Democratic. She is home and symbol of the world's greatest experiments in the internationalism which the Nazis detest: the League of Nations and the Red Cross. Now, with war in the Mediterranean, Switzerland has automatically become guilty of the cardinal sin: being in Hitler...
...sharp-tongued Irishman who never minces his words, the Cardinal has positive dislikes-among them, Protestantism ("the Protestant Church here and elsewhere is no part of the Church which Christ founded") and modern civilization (which "increases the opportunity for sin...
...Morals found expression in songs of fallen virtue (The Picture That Is Turned Toward the Wall) and tippling ("When you stumbled and fell in the hallway, I knew you'd been drinking again"). But with the turn of the century music publishers drew the line at ballads about sin. When Lyricist Arthur J. Lamb submitted A Bird in a Gilded Cage in 1900, Louis Bernstein refused to take it until the bird was changed from a kept woman into an old man's wife...