Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beetles to dire warnings of moral disaster from the eight "community property" States*. The eight States had argued (getting a little blue in the face) that a change in the tax laws to require joint income-tax returns would cause more divorces and force men & women to live in sin. But committee members, hard-pressed by the revenue-hungry Treasury, were concerned more with cash...
Three years ago Mussolini was still popular in Italy. Today, said Matthews, he is the butt of crude jokes. More cynical than Anglo-Saxons, the Italians scorn Mussolini for the unforgivable Italian sin: making a fool of oneself. On May 9 their attitude was bored or ominous silence when Mussolini stalked to the reviewing stand on the Via Impero to celebrate the tragic farce of African Empire...
Most of Flat's plot is concerned with keeping Paisano Garfield from committing the unpardonable sin of marrying. This predicament would never have arisen if his grandfather had not died and bequeathed him two clapboard houses and a gold watch-a misfortune bemoaned by his indolent companions when they discover that a peach-skinned Portuguese named Hedy Lamarr has her dark eyes on their new-found wealth...
...standard for Harvard golfers which has never since been equalled. No one is making any pretenses that this year's Yardling links squad is the best since the days of the Atlanta wonder, but Coach Don Peddle frankly admits it tops any in the last five years. Unbeaten sin six starts, the Freshmen take on Yale tomorrow...
...exhibition as ugly as Sin, as shocking as a Coney Island horror house, small-town mayors, housing officials, clubwomen and school kids trooped into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. The museum had caged and displayed the "Housing Crime...