Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army and Navy opened an official doghouse for war correspondents and put inside it the London Daily Mail's Washington Correspondent Walter Farr, now in Hawaii. His sin: the "great convoy" story, datelined "At Sea," which purported to be an eyewitness account of an A.E.F. pouring across the Pacific-a story which, the Navy said, had been filed on land, at Honolulu, and contained "no positive facts." The damage that the apparently unfounded story might have done was due to the fact that at that time a big convoy was indeed bound for Australia...
Only with a separate air force, says he, will the men who understand global air power be able to create real - and by real he means -of air- power for the U.S. Meantime, says unmodest, sin cere Sascha de Seversky: "Those of us who have grasped the meaning of genuine air power have a clear function to per form. It is to hammer away, day and night, even at the risk of making ourselves a nuisance, at the mind and conscience of our country...
...occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable sin, it is the only blight on a good evening's entertainment...
Elderly (119 years) but lively Zion's Herald, No. 2 Methodist weekly, waxed hot last week over racial discrimination in the Methodist Church. "Our sin against the Negro lies as a log across the path of Methodist progress," editorialized the Herald. "In these days of war, with discrimination against the Negro becoming a nationwide scandal, we are tongue-tied. . . . What is the church going to do about real brotherhood...
These sharp etchings of Kings & Desperate Men are set off by broader and blander portrayals of the aristocrats; country gentlemen; the Universities; Bath ("Farewell, dear Bath," said a lady of fashion, "nowhere so much scandal, no where so little sin!"); of the male tops (macaronies) whose days were spent perfuming and prinking and whose powdered pompadours were sometimes almost as tall as their wearers; and of the poor, who sought escape from their horrible condition in gin-drinking-"at once the most pathetic and the most tragic of proletarian revolutions-an overthrow of order by the worst means, and toward...